SUPINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supine mean? 

• SUPINE (adjective)
  The adjective SUPINE has 2 senses:

1. lying face upward

2. passive as a result of indolence or indifference

  Familiarity information: SUPINE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lying face upward

Synonyms:

resupine; supine

Similar:

unerect (not upright in position or posture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Passive as a result of indolence or indifference

Context example:

No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried

Similar:

inactive; passive (lacking in energy or will)

 Context examples 

Useful in assessing neonatal neuromuscular development, this is obtained when the infant is placed in a supine position and the infant's feet are grasped pulled toward the ipsilateral ears.

(Heel to Ear Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Susan was only acting on the same truths, and pursuing the same system, which her own judgment acknowledged, but which her more supine and yielding temper would have shrunk from asserting.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Useful in assessing neonatal neuromuscular development, this is the result obtained when the infant is placed in a supine position and the infant's feet are grasped pulled toward the ipsilateral ears.

(Heel to Ear Measurement Result, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): supine, trendelenburg, standing

(Defined Observation Body Position Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Physician documentation or report of any of the following symptoms of heart failure prior to this care encounter described as unusual dyspnea on light exertion, recurrent dyspnea occurring in the supine position, fluid retention, low cardiac output secondary to cardiac dysfunction; or the description of rales, jugular venous distension, or pulmonary edema.

(History of Heart Failure, NCI Thesaurus)

Useful in assessing for developmental dysplasia of the hip or a leg-length discrepancy, this is the result obtained when the patient is placed in a supine position and the ankles are brought to the buttocks with the hips and knees flexed.

(Galeazzi Test Result, NCI Thesaurus)

An assessment for developmental dysplasia of the hip or a leg-length discrepancy, the patient is placed in a supine position and the ankles are brought to the buttocks with the hips and knees flexed.

(Galeazzi Test, NCI Thesaurus)

In the ruffled mane, the rider's breezy hair and erect attitude, there was a suggestion of suddenly arrested motion, of strength, courage, and youthful buoyancy that contrasted sharply with the supine grace of the 'Dolce far Niente' sketch.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Clinical symptoms of heart failure include: unusual dyspnea on light exertion, recurrent dyspnea occurring in the supine position, fluid retention or rales, jugular venous distension, pulmonary edema on physical exam, or pulmonary edema on chest x-ray presumed to be cardiac dysfunction.

(Heart Failure, NCI Thesaurus)