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body position
bod·y po·si·tion
Subclass of:
Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena
Definitions related to body position:
  • (posture) Position of the limbs or the carriage of the body as a whole.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The spatial property of a body; where it is or the way in which it is situated.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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