Spatial Concept
standing position
stand·ing po·si·tion
Subclass of:
Body position
Definitions related to standing position:
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(standing) The act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(standing) To be stationary, upright, vertical, on one's legs. Deprecation Comment:This concept has been deprecated because it does not describe a type of Act (as it should in the ActClass code system), but rather encodes the result or value of an observation. The same code has been added to the ObservationValue code system.NCI Health Level 7 VocabularyU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2018
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Human position in which the body is held in an upright orthostatic position and supported only by the feet.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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