What's the difference between prostrate and supine?

Prostrate


Definition:

  • (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
  • (a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
  • (a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
  • (a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
  • (v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
  • (v. t.) to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
  • (v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
  • (v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
  • (2) The clinical course was characterized by severe prostration, persistently high spiking fever, and continuous development of enlarged lymph nodes.
  • (3) This rare esophageal rupture should be suspected in any chest injury patients, especially those characterized by extreme cyanosis, dyspnea, shock, and prostration incompatible with thoracic cage injury.
  • (4) In 352 patients affected with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL) the authors simultaneously detected a solid second tumour 22 times (= 6.22%) (6 cancers of the prostrate, 5 cancers of the skin, 4 cancers of the uterus, 2 cancers of the stomach, 2 cancers of the lung, one case of rectal and mamma cancer each and one case of eye sarcoma).
  • (5) The cranial tumor disappeared after irradiation but he died of metastases and general prostration.
  • (6) Severe hypotension, fluid retention, watery diarrhea, and central nervous deficits culminated in a profound prostration as the dose-limiting toxicity.
  • (7) The specificity, sedimentation coefficient on sucrose gradient, and sensitivity to sulfhydryl reagents and heat of this dihydrotestosterone-binding protein are typical of the cytoplasmic androgen receptor from other androgen target tissues such as prostrate.
  • (8) Complications were intractable fever, obstruction of the cannula, and prostration, resulting in interruption and discontinuity of this strategy within 11 weeks (in all cases).
  • (9) Scotland regained the lead after 53 minutes when they played on as a Malta player lay prostrate near the halfway line following a challenge by Hanley and Martin converted a low cross from eight yards.
  • (10) At variance in all controls, gastrointestinal symptoms were long lasting and associated with major prostration due to electrolyte and fluid loss.
  • (11) Though farmers comprise just 0.3% of the population of England and 1.4% of the rural population , ministers treat them and their lobbyists as an idol before which they must prostrate themselves.
  • (12) Administration of .2 ml of LHAS resulted in a significant reduction in the weights of the dorsolateral prostrate, coagulating glands, seminal vesicles, and Cowpers glands compared with intact controls (p. less than .05), and the weights were comparable with those in castrate controls.
  • (13) I have lots of friends in the Jewish community, and, yes, I can prostrate myself no further, it's just a stupid thing to say, and I didn't even … I accept I said it, and I am conscious that my speech isn't always as balanced as it should be."
  • (14) Five patients over the age of 55 years showed slight enlargement of the prostrate.
  • (15) A thousand came to his fringe event, prostrated themselves – a "hot" Tory in the era of austerity!
  • (16) By contrast, toxic doses of l-homoarginine, l-lysine, l-leucine and ammonium acetate caused dyspnoea, extreme prostration, and in some cases coma in 15-30min., and increased the concentration of ammonia of blood significantly and the concentration of glutamine of brain slightly.
  • (17) Difficult though it may be, we must prostrate ourselves in the face of public sentiment and continue to do so until there is genuine belief that we regret what has happened and the part we played in it".
  • (18) But as Theresa May prostrates Britain before her head-chopping friends in Saudi Arabia, her strategy is clear.
  • (19) Calves fed sporocysts of Sarcocystis isolated from the feces of dogs and coyotes became anorectic, lost weight, and became anemic and prostrate, and died.
  • (20) The disease was characterised by fever, ataxia, posterior paresis, circling and hyperaesthesia progressing to prostration.

Supine


Definition:

  • (a.) Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
  • (a.) Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
  • (a.) Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
  • (n.) A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subjects then rested supine until 10.00 h when blood was again taken, and blood pressure recorded.
  • (2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (3) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
  • (4) At the end of the baseline period, supine diastolic blood pressure (SuDBP) was 105-140 mm Hg on hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) 25 mg once daily and placebo t.i.d.
  • (5) To determine if computed tomography (CT) can accurately measure lung volume, we compared lung gas volume measured by helium dilution with the equivalent volume calculated from CT total lung volume and density in 13 supine dogs.
  • (6) The inverse relation between PGE2 and NE for the difference in hormone concentrations between supine and sitting (r=-0.44, p less than 0.05) may be explained by an inhibitory effect of PGE2 on renal NE release, earlier observed in experiments in vitro.
  • (7) A significant effect for pirenzepine was seen for episodes greater than 5 min (t = 2.61, P = 0.023) and a trend towards significance was seen for total (upright and supine positions combined) percent time of reflux (t = 2.13, P = 0.055).
  • (8) Nine patients were admitted to the hospital, placed on a diet containing 150 mEq sodium, and studied for periods of 4 hours, on different days, in the following conditions: (1) supine position, (2) upright posture (UP), (3) UP after 10 mg domperidone, intravenously in bolus, and (4) UP after 3 days of domperidone, 30 mg orally.
  • (9) In 25 patients we evaluated the efficacy of the prone position to counter these technical difficulties and found that the prone position offers visualization superior to the supine, especially in obese and uncooperative patients and those with abundant bowel gas.
  • (10) One hundred and twenty blood pressure measurements were taken from each subject with two different instruments (one on each arm) in a 2 (supine or standing position) X 2 (left or right arm) X 3 (three different sets of pairwise instrument comparisons) X 5 (five one-minute interval measurements per phase) factorial design.
  • (11) Supine and erect blood pressure (sphygmomanometer) measurements and side effects were noted at the same times.
  • (12) A positive linear correlation was obtained between increase in plasma osmolality and plasma ANP in the supine but not in the seated hypertonic saline infusion.
  • (13) Arterial blood gas tensions were measured in the supine position 15 minutes after administration of the tetracaine solution and 15 minutes after turning patients to the knee-chest position.
  • (14) Whole body tilt from supine to 45 degrees head-up was associated with increased heart rate and an insignificant rise in MABP in both groups, although a rise in plasma AVP occurred in control subjects only.
  • (15) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
  • (16) changes in supine BP at 3 months compared with baseline were -15.7 (3.6) mmHg systolic and -13.9 (2.7) mmHg diastolic in the ketanserin group and -26.6 (7.9) mmHg systolic and -15.2 (2.7) mmHg diastolic in the metoprolol group.
  • (17) Near maximal supine exercise for 10 min on a bicycle ergometer caused a small increase in plasma renin activity during exertion with a much larger increase during recovery which reached a peak between 10-20 min.
  • (18) Seven healthy volunteers were exposed to head-down tilt at -15 degrees for 5 h. Before and after exposure they exercised on a bicycle ergometer in the supine and seated positions.
  • (19) Fifteen normal volunteers were scanned transversely in the supine position before and after intravenous administration of glucagon (1 mg) and oral administration of water.
  • (20) The data were compared with data on 500 patients scanned only when supine.