Depression (kinesiology)
Depression, in kinesiology, is the anatomical term of motion for movement in an inferior direction.
It is the opposite of elevation.
This term is often applied to the shoulders (e.g. dropping them to a normal condition after shrugging them would be depression).
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Famous quotes containing the word depression:
“Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)