The Royal Tonga Ski Federation congratulated him on its Facebook page. Taufatofua had announced his intention to become Tongaâs first male Olympic cross-country skier at the end of 2016 as he looked for a new challenge after exiting the Rio taekwondo competition in the first round.
prone position a position with the patient lying face down with arms bent comfortably at the elbow and padded with the armboards positioned forward. Prone position. From Lammon et al., 1995.
Itâs easy to confuse the meaning of prone and supine â and itâs important to distinguish between them, because theyâre antonyms. (I also discuss here some of the synonyms of each word.). Prone, from the Latin term pronus, means âinclined to,â and it is commonly used in this figurative sense as well as to mean âlying face down.â Pronate, used both as a verb and as an adjective, means âto bend forwardâ or âbent forward,â respectively.