(medicine) A physical position that a patient is placed in by raising the inferior half by 30 degrees, especially useful for superior trauma or pelvic access.

(medicine) A physical position where the patient's head is raised by 45-60 degrees to promote oxygenation via maximum chest expansion.

(music) a position of a chord when the root is the lowest note

plural of root position

plural of thumb position

(music) The position when the thumb is contacting the string or strings of a stringed instrument.

(physics) A feedback loop in which the output of a system is amplified with a net positive gain and added to the input signal before the main amplifier.

A position in which a person sits upright in a bed, possibly bending forward.

(bacteriology, of a bacterium) That stains dark blue or violet after Gram staining, due to large quantities of peptidoglycan in the cell wall.

plural of position paper