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(A suffix forming nouns meaning: quality or condition: partnership; act, power, or skill: workmanship; relation between: friendship; office, position, or occupation: governorship; number: readership)
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A standard position of the body: The anatomic position is used to describe a person's posture when standing erect against a wall, facing directly forward, feet pointed forward and slightly apart, and arms hanging down at the sides with the palms facing forward.
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Anatomy and Related Anatomical Terms
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The beginning point of a joint range of motion: An anatomic zero joint position was explained by the professor to be descriptive of the preluding stage of the span of movement of a joint before actual movement begins.
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Anatomy and Related Anatomical Terms
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Lagrangian position
1. One of a set of five positions at which a small object can maintain a stable orbit under the influence of two more massive objects.
2. A point in space at which a small body, under the gravitational influence of two large ones, will remain approximately at rest relative to them.
2. A point in space at which a small body, under the gravitational influence of two large ones, will remain approximately at rest relative to them.
The existence of such points was deduced by the French mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1772.
In 1906, the first examples were discovered. These were minor planets moving in Jupiter’s orbit, under the influence of Jupiter and the sun.
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