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postural, a.|ˈpɒstjʊərəl|
[f. posture n. + -al1.]
a. Pertaining or relating to posture or position.
1857Marshall Hall (title) On Prone and Postural Respiration in Drowning. 1895Syd. Soc. Lex., Postural respiration, term for the various forms of artificial respiration in which the patient is put in certain postures or positions... Postural treatment, treatment by position, as..for various fractures. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 88 The use of dumb-bells or clubs, and a variety of postural exercises.
b. Path. postural albuminuria, albuminuria caused by the upright posture.
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 156 Cases of ‘postural’ or ‘cyclic’ albuminuria are occasionally met with. Ibid. VIII. 154 If there be albumin it should prove postural (‘cyclical’).
c. postural integration, ‘some form of ‘body work’, a term that applies to various specialized kinds of massage..that claim to bring about mental well-being through physical manipulation and body realignment’ (private communication, Cyra McFadden, 15 Aug. 1979).
1977C. McFadden Serial xviii. 42/1 She had like mutated over the years through Gurdjieff..Human Life Styling, postural integration, [etc.]. 1977Rolling Stone 19 May 32/3 There was postural integration and the Alexander Technique and Aural Ecology and the Chiropractic Information Bureau and Rolfing and even one discipline called ‘Prosperity Training’. 1979San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chron. (Sunday mag.) 26 Aug. 29, I used to do Gestalt therapy. I did body work, postural integration. |