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How to pronounce supination in English?

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Type Words
Type of rotary motion, rotation
Derivation supinate

Examples of supination

supination
This could involve rapidly switching from pronation to supination of the forearm.
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The perfect style is the foot to come down with a slight supination and on a tilt to the outside.
From the edition.cnn.com
The problems start when a person walks or runs with foot movement outside the normal range of pronation or supination.
From the sacbee.com
Pronation is the opposite of supination.
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The study revealed surgical treatment offered a 30 percent greater improvement in elbow flexion and a 40 percent greater improvement in supination when compared to non-surgical treatment.
From the sciencedaily.com
Over long periods of extreme use, this can cause various medical conditions ranging from simple impaired walking to severe pronation or supination of the foot.
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Getting new shoes every 300 miles or three months and selecting shoes that match your foot type and weight and that address foot pronation or supination will help minimize the chance of injury.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • Rotation of the hands and forearms so that the palms face upward
  • (supinate) turn (the hand or forearm) so that the back is downward or backward, or turn out (the leg)
  • (Supinate) To turn, facing upward. (When you collect change at the tollbooth, you supinate your palm.)
  • (supinate) hand is twisted so that PO is up or towards the signer, as in COMPLETE; think of SuPINate as being on the SPINe.
  • (Supinating) A rolling motion to the outside edge of the foot during a step. If you are supinating your wrist, the palm would end face up.
  • Rotating a hand or foot outward on its long axis. The movement is done with the muscles in the forearm or lower leg.
  • Foot strike where the runner puts most of their weight to the outer side of the shoe.
  • An outward rotation of the hands (thumbs turning out) away from the body's centerline when standing in a palms-facing-the-body position. In the golf swing it is the right-hand rotation motion on the backswing and the left's on the forward swing.
  • Movement of the forearm into a palm-up position.