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The two-headed biceps brachii crosses the shoulder and elbow joints to flex the forearm, also taking part in supinating the forearm at the radioulnar joints and flexing the arm at the shoulder joint.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

This is usually easily done by flexing the elbow, making slight traction on the forearm, and alternately pronating and supinating it.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Another: Pass the ulnar side of the right index along the left index several times from tip to base, while pronating and supinating the latter.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick




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