supinate
verbUK /ˈsuː.pəˌneɪt/ · US /ˈsuː.pəˌneɪt/
Etymology From Latin supīnō (“turn up, turn over”).
1
Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences To twist the forearm so as to turn the palm of the hand backwards if the forearm is pointing up, upwards if the forearm is horizontal, or forwards if the arm is pointing down; to twist the forearm by contracting the biceps brachii; to twist the right forearm clockwise or the left forearm counterclockwise.
3
To lie back into a supine position.
- Derived terms
- hypersupinate, oversupinate