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  2. Platypnea - Wikipedia

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    Platypnea or platypnoea is shortness of breath (dyspnea) that is relieved when lying down, and worsens when sitting or standing upright. It is the opposite of orthopnea. [1] The condition was first described in 1949 and named in 1969.

  3. Orthopnea - Wikipedia

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    Orthopnea or orthopnoea [1] is shortness of breath (dyspnea) that occurs when lying flat, [2] causing the person to have to sleep propped up in bed or sitting in a chair. It is commonly seen as a late manifestation of heart failure, resulting from fluid redistribution into the central circulation, causing an increase in pulmonary capillary pressure and causing difficulty in breathing.

  4. Body relative direction - Wikipedia

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    Another common definition uses a human body, standing upright, as a frame of reference. In that case, up is defined as the direction from feet to head, perpendicular to the surface of the Earth. In most cases, up is a directionally oriented position generally opposite to that of the pull of gravity. This statue holds a sword in its proper right ...

  5. Orthostatic intolerance - Wikipedia

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    Orthostatic intolerance occurs in humans because standing upright is a fundamental stressor, so requires rapid and effective circulatory and neurologic compensations to maintain blood pressure, cerebral blood flow, and consciousness. When a human stands, about 750 ml of thoracic blood are abruptly translocated downward.

  6. Anatomical terms of location - Wikipedia

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    Opposite to outermost (the adventitia, serosa, or the cavity's wall). [54] Parietal (from Latin paries 'wall'): pertaining to the outer wall of a body cavity. [55] For example, the parietal peritoneum is the lining on the inside of the abdominal cavity. Parietal can also refer specifically to the parietal bone of the skull or associated structures.

  7. Orthostatic hypotension - Wikipedia

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    Orthostatic hypotension is defined as a fall in systolic blood pressure of at least 20 mmHg or the diastolic blood pressure of at least 10 mmHg between the supine reading and the upright reading. Also, the heart rate should be measured for both positions.

  8. Orthograde posture - Wikipedia

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    Orthograde locomotion of a sifaka lemur.. Orthograde is a term derived from Greek ὀρθός, orthos ("right", "true", "straight") [1] + Latin gradi (to walk) [2] that describes a manner of walking which is upright, with the independent motion of limbs.

  9. Supine position - Wikipedia

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    The decline in death due to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is said to be attributable to having babies sleep in the supine position. [3] The realization that infants sleeping face down, or in a prone position, had an increased mortality rate re-emerged into medical awareness at the end of the 1980s when two researchers, Susan Beal in Australia and Gus De Jonge in the Netherlands ...