posturaladj.

1857 M. Hall (title) On Prone and Postural Respiration in Drowning.

1864 Sci. Amer. 2 Apr. 211/2 Artificial respiration may be practiced by one or two postural methods..or by mouth to mouth insufflation, or by galvanism of the phrenic nerve.

1895 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 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.

1955 R. Macintosh & M. Ostlere Local Analgesia Head & Neck xii. 88 We restrict postural instillation to the operation of submucous resection of a deviated septum.

1969 Nursing Res. 18 366 (title) Relationship of the head-down position of postural drainage to lung parameters in chronic obstructive lung disease.

1997 Arch. Dis. Childhood 76 148 Gastro-oesophageal reflux is increased in cystic fibrosis and it is possible that postural drainage techniques may exacerbate reflux, potentially resulting in aspiration and further impairment of pulmonary function.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Sept. 747/2 Four lectures are devoted to the subjects of ‘postural expression’, the proportions of the body, and the influence of sex on physical development.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 88 The use of dumb-bells or clubs, and a variety of postural exercises.

1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. vi. 142 When we are ‘doing nothing’ the cortex is all the time inhibiting the postural centres in the brain-stem from producing rigidity.

1968 Brain 91 394 The basal ganglia are..concerned with the postural relation of the parts of the body to each other, and with total equilibrium.

1994 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 11 Sept. c1/4 An elderly trio, a pigeon lady and a retired couple, provided postural and gestural contrast to the younger set.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 156 Cases of ‘postural’ or ‘cyclic’ albuminuria are occasionally met with.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 154 If there be albumin it should prove postural (‘cyclical’).

1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 407 The phenomenon of ‘redding out’ is essentially and solely ocular in origin due to postural congestion of the vascular retina.

1938 Lancet 31 Dec. 1510/2 Hypotension is sometimes accompanied by..postural giddiness.

1979 Science 14 Sept. 1152/3 Some subjects did experience clinical symptoms of postural hypotension, such as lightheadedness on standing.

1995 Family Health Spring 21/3 A significant drop in blood pressure on standing is called postural hypotension and may affect how your doctor treats your high blood pressure.

1968 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 6 Mar. 22/1 While in England, she took a course in postural integration, which she tells us is a new concept of teaching co-ordination of the mind and body.

1977 C. McFadden Serial xviii. 42/1 She had like mutated over the years through Gurdjieff..Human Life Styling, postural integration, [etc.].

1990 Harpers & Queen (B.N.C.) Apr. 58 Such techniques as acupuncture, postural integration and taking dietary supplements may also prove effective antidotes to the ravages of time.

1915 C. S. Sherrington in Brain 38 202 In reflex standing the opponents of the posturally contracting anti-gravity muscles, the flexors..exhibit no postural contraction.

1966 Anesthesiology 27 817 (title) Lung compliance of the rabbit and posturally induced changes in functional residual capacity.

1995 NeuroReport 6 1211 Autistic children were posturally more unstable than normal children and quite insensitive to visually perceived environmental motion.