Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
postural
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the idea that postural or emotional changes could bring on purring also seems far-fetched.
▪ Atonic seizures are characterized by a sudden loss of postural muscle tone.
▪ However; the defiant child also tends to have a little better postural control than the overly sensitive child.
▪ One should attempt to withhold all conventional hypotensive agents for as long as possible as they will tend to exacerbate the postural hypotension.
▪ Patients taking these drugs should be advised to report postural dizziness or faintness, which may signal orthostatic hypotension.
▪ The forward-tilting chair allows the spine and the postural muscles to support and balance the body naturally.
▪ VDUs are suspected by some of causing eye strain, postural problems and even of spreading harmful radiation across the room.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Postural
Postural \Pos"tur*al\ (?; 135), a. Of or pertaining to posture.
Wiktionary
postural
a. 1 Relating to posture. 2 (context: medical) Lying down.
WordNet
postural
adj. of or relating to or involving posture; "postural exercises"
Usage examples of "postural".
After she'd eaten and done some postural drainage, she and Rusty, both exhausted, were put to bed.
Well before dawn Angela tried the usual postural drainage combined with percussion.
She sat up—a little dizzily against the brief rush of postural hypotension—and reached over to help him as a steward came into the cabin.
I file the facial and postural reactions, tentatively labeling them as surprise.
In your wife’s case, the edema—swelling—is dropsical in nature, not postural,” said Sir Edward firmly.