supinator
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of supinator
From New Latin, dating back to 1605–15; see origin at supinate, -tor
Example Sentences
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The pronators are the pronator teres and the pronator quadratus, and the supinator is the only one that turns the forearm anteriorly.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The supinator is the only one that turns the forearm anteriorly.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Here the artery lies in the interval between the supinator longus and the pronator radii teres.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
The long supinator, passing obliquely downwards and inwards, divides, in fact, the forearm into two parts: one supero-internal, the other infero-external.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
He could throw into energetic single action the biceps, the supinator longus, the radial extensors, the platysma myoides, and many other muscles.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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