Michael Dickinson

When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at the time, like grooming, feeding, walking, or courting. Our experiments showed that the fly somehow 'knows' whether it needs to make large or small postural changes to reach the correct preflight posture.

American Scientist

Use 'postural' when discussing conditions or issues related to body alignment and posture.

Medical Context

'Postural' can modify nouns, describing attributes related to body posture.

Descriptive Adjective

Use 'postural' when observing or describing someone's body posture, often in a medical context.

Observational Usage

'Postural' highlights actions intended to improve or correct the body’s posture.

Corrective Action

Link 'postural' to exercise and health, especially for strengthening or alignment.

Fitness and Health

In medical or therapeutic contexts, 'postural' relates to treating or mitigating posture problems.

Therapeutic Focus

Use 'postural' to describe natural, automatic body position adjustments in living beings.

Biological Instinct

'Postural' often refers to unconscious control of our body's stability and position.

Involuntary Movements

Refer to 'postural' in the context of developmental stages, such as a child learning to sit or stand.

Developmental Milestone

 and witness a change in the time constants and space constants with which, for example, the brain is representing language again. Just as the brain came out of chaos at the beginning, it's going back into chaos in the end. This results in declines in memory in cognition, and in postural ability and agility.

Michael Merzenich:...

 it changes too. And it turns out that in weightlessness, you lose bone. And then you also cause the muscles that work against gravity, what are called the postural muscles, they'll start to shrink and lose strength. There are other things in the cardiovascular system, the heart and blood vessels.