(adv.) With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eleven patients with stones overlying the sacro-iliac joint were treated in the prone position, while 56 patients with stones distal to the sacro-iliac joint, were treated in the saddle (astride) position.
(2) The results are in agreement with data on visual callosal connections in animals and confirm previous psychophysical findings (Berardi & Fiorentini, 1987) indicating the particular properties of the interhemispheric cross-talk between symmetric regions of the visual field astride the vertical meridian in man.
(3) Segmental ganglia of the ventral nerve cord arise as laterally thickened sheets of tissue lying astride the ventral midline.
(4) After all, “how can you expect a little child whose mother is an angel and whose father is a Cannibal King and who has spent her life sailing the seas to tell the truth always?” Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking.
(5) The caudal lobe of liver is an independent sector astride the right and left liver regions.
(6) The Sunday Mirror reprinted Profumo's 'Darling' letter, while the News of the World famously photographed Keeler sitting naked astride a fashionably modern chair, an image that would come to epitomise the Swinging Sixties.
(7) Serial histologic sectioning of the specialized atrioventricular junctional area revealed that the final bifurcation of the branching bundle came astride the septum in the inferior angle of the defect.
(8) Coagulative denaturation of contractile proteins follows, presenting as irregular, amorphous degeneration stripes astride irreversibly damaged myocells.
(9) Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmind Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking is the invention of Swedish children’s book author Astrid Lindgren.
(10) Updated at 10.13am BST 10.07am BST To those of you astride a high moral horse ...
(11) The Buddh circuit has been built as a flagship development for a bigger project: a new town with a population of several hundred thousand, which will have malls, sports and education facilities, and will sit astride a new motorway linking it to Delhi, 32km away, and Agra, 190km away.
(12) in which he bobs towards his fiancee across the Aegean, astride a jet-ski, half naked but without a hint of torso jiggle.
(13) Roy Wood told Today that even in their heyday, Christmas songs had a touch of the Samuel Becketts about them – born astride the grave, they were rung out once the new year was rung in.
(14) But it wasn't only Reagan: Springsteen is so popular astride political fissures that Chris Christie, the recently elected Republican governor of his home state, New Jersey, wanted Springsteen to play at his inaugural bash.
(15) In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo he is likened to Kalle Blomkvist, Astrid Lindgren's boy detective, while Lisbeth Salander is regularly compared to her more famous creation for children, Pippi Longstocking, what with being so unconventional and super-strong.
(16) Manometry was performed with an assembly combining 13 side holes and a sleeve sensor positioned astride the pylorus.
(17) Astrid, suddenly, tells me to stop the car at the next intersection.
(18) Astrid Silva had no idea Barack Obama was going to name her in his landmark immigration speech , making her the poster child for reform, until the roomful of fellow activists in Las Vegas exploded around her.
(19) Times have changed and so - evidently - has Astrid Proll.
(20) A 560-kb region covered by a DXS56-positive YAC has been restriction-mapped and subcloned, disclosing a 187-kb MluI fragment astride the breakpoint.
Leg
Definition:
(v. t.) To run.
(v. t.) To use as a leg, with it as object
(v. t.) To bow.
(n.) A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.
(n.) That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers.
(n.) The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
(n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
(n.) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
(n.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
(n.) An extension of the boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; -- called also water leg.
(n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
(n.) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(2) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(3) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(4) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(5) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(7) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(8) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(9) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
(10) A second group was chronically implanted without electrical stimulation in one leg and implanted with cyclical electrical stimulation applied through the electrode in the other leg.
(11) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(12) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
(13) This, however will not result in normal lower leg bones, as can be concluded from the fact that spontaneous fractures have occurred partly even in the locomotor apparatus after the pseudarthroses had healed.
(14) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(15) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(16) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(17) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(18) Heavy death losses (59%) occurred in adult Mystromys 3--14 days after muscle biopsies were taken from their rear legs.
(19) Significant differences were found for the clinical scores for legs with and without previous DVT, which shows that the method is of value despite a not inconsiderable interobserver variation.
(20) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.