Definition of Postural

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or involving posture. "Postural exercises"

Partainyms: Posture
Derivative terms: Posture, Posture

Definition of Postural

1. a. Of or pertaining to posture.

Definition of Postural

1. Adjective. Relating to posture. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Postural

1. pertaining to the position of the body [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postural

postulants
postulata
postulate
postulated
postulates
postulating
postulation
postulational
postulations
postulator
postulators
postulatory
postulatum
postumous
postundergraduate
postural (current term)
postural hypotension
posturally
posture
postured
posturer
posturers
postures
posturing
posturings
posturist
posturists
postvacation
postvaccinal
postvaccination

Literary usage of Postural

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"The case here recorded, with 6 others found in the literature since 1906, makes a list of 43.9 ON THE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF postural CHANGES IN THE ..."

2. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University Dept. of Neurology, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1921)
"In the reflex nervous system this is manifested by postural tonus and at the ... This intrinsic property of muscle tissue is dependent on postural tonus, ..."

3. A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: A Practical Exposition of the Methods by Solomon Solis-Cohen (1904)
"Other postural Deformities, Stoop, Pigeon- breast, Hollow Chest. ... For purposes of treatment, other postural deformities of the trunk may be classed with ..."

4. Man's Unconscious Spirit; the Psychoanalysis of Spiritism by Wilfrid Lay (1921)
"1 It is the postural tonus that keeps one sitting or standing as a unit, wrinkles the brow in deep thought, diminishes or increases secretion of gastric ..."

5. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"Muscular Tone or Tonus—postural Reflexes.—It is generally stated that so long as a muscle is connected with the spinal segment from which its nerves arise, ..."

6. Selections from the Writings, Medical and Neurological, of Sir William Broadbent by William Henry Broadbent (1908)
"A NOTE ON postural ALBUMINURIA The British Medical Journal, 1904 FUNCTIONAL albuminuria, which was the subject of three important papers read before the ..."

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