Resupination

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A condition or action involving turning or being turned back on its axis ; an anatomical or botanical movement resulting in a reversed or upward-facing position
2. The process or state where an object, limb, or plant part rotates to face upward or returns to an original dorsal orientation ; a movement causing reversal of surface or orientation
3. An occurrence of being rotated back to a dorsal or upward direction ; a movement in which a part or structure assumes a reversed or supine alignment

Etymology: "Resupination" is formed from the Latin "resupinare," meaning to bend back or turn up on the back, built from "re-" (back, again) and "supinare" (to lay on the back), itself from "supinus," lying face upward. The Latin root gives the word its physical sense: a body or limb turned so that it faces the sky rather than the ground. English took the word from Latin in the sense of a return to a supine position, and it has stayed close to that anatomical and physical meaning. The same root gave English "supine," so the two words are closely related: "supine" describes the lying-back state itself, while "resupination" names the act of returning to it.

Synonyms: rotation, supination

Antonyms: pronation