lifting torque

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lifting torque [′lift·iŋ ‚tȯrk]

(biophysics)

A measure of the stress arising from the performance of a task that requires lifting; it is the product of the weight of the load and the load's distance from a point within the vertebral column that serves as a fulcrum.

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