He then asks the patient to supinate his hands and close his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
If you do it palm down, when you get to ninety degrees, turn your hand so that it is palm up, and you can see that it is also used to supinate the hand. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
I supinate (under-pronate) and I fell twice in these shoes because my ankle rolled. From Wordnik.com. [Zappos.com: new styles] Reference
Those who have high arches supinate, or under-pronate, and may need cushioning shoes. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
The fragments approach the inter-osseous space; while there is more or less of deformity, preternatural mobility, absence of the power to pronate and supinate the army, and crepitus. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
It is no uncommon experience to find a patient walk into hospital with an impacted fracture of the neck of the femur or a fracture of the fibula; or to be able to pronate and supinate the forearm with a greenstick fracture of the radius or a fracture of the ulna. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
Page 273 table, raise the affected limb from the side, and supinate the hand; make an incision two inches in length on the ulnar side of the coraco-brachialis muscle, and divide the fascia carefully as high as the axilla; cut carefully through the cellular tissue and separate the ulna nerve on the inner side, the median on the outer side; open the sheath, and detach the venae comites which are on either side of the vessel; and, then, pass the aneurismal needle under the artery from the ulnar to the radial side. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
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