Medical Positions
The following positions are specifically used in medicine:
- anatomical position
- Bozeman's position
- decubitus position
- Fowler's position
- knee-chest position
- knee-elbow position
- lithotomy position
- Mayer position
- Rose's position
- semi-Fowler position
- Sims position
- Trendelenburg position
- verticosubmental position
- Waters' position
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