What's the difference between barefoot and calced?

Barefoot


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (2) COME is third-grade medical education producing third-grade graduates and 'barefoot doctors'.
  • (2) The least amount of pronation takes place when running barefoot.
  • (3) A Chinese activist who helped "barefoot lawyer" Chen Guangcheng escape his lengthy house arrest in the dead of night has herself been detained, a US rights group said.
  • (4) With a computerized optical pedobarograph, three footsteps on each side were recorded under three conditions: 1) barefoot, 2) wearing the patients' own hosiery, and 3) wearing experimental patented padded hosiery.
  • (5) • A chimp-trekking permit costs $90pp rwandatourism.com ) 12 Go barefoot in paradise: Likoma island, Malawi Kaya Mawa resort on Likoma Island, Malawi.
  • (6) Both patients are now able to walk well barefoot or in custom-made shoes; no orthotic devices are needed.
  • (7) All children showed a decrease in the magnitude of the knee-extending moment arm toward normal when barefoot.
  • (8) Park said: "I just thought: when am I ever going to get an opportunity to stand barefoot and bare-chested in Stormont, while other women elsewhere in the world would be stoned to death for that?
  • (9) Sometimes I was barefoot and looked helpless I guess.
  • (10) The results showed that the MTP joint reaction forces (FJ), the metatarsal-sesamoid forces (FS), and the resultant of these forces (FRES), were twice as large in high heels compared to barefoot walking.
  • (11) The purpose of this investigation was therefore to show whether the pronation angle and the torsion angle differ when running barefoot, with spikes, and with running shoes (forefoot touchdown, N = 9 left and right).
  • (12) In order to explore the reasons for this, in 1987 we carried out a survey of villagers, barefoot doctors, and local administrators in Fengxian, Shanggoa, and Loaan counties, where incomes are good, fair, and low, respectively.
  • (13) In China, where Western corticosteroids are regarded as too expensive for the barefoot doctors, several species of yam are used.
  • (14) There was, however, a significant reduction in forefoot maximum plantar pressure among the three materials compared to barefoot-only walking.
  • (15) To determine the effects of wearing heavy footwear on physiological responses five male and five female subjects were measured while walking on a treadmill (4, 5.25, and 6.5 km.h-1) with different external loads (barefooted, combat boots, and waist pack).
  • (16) Each production brigade has a cooperative medical service station and a woman and child health section with 2-3 barefoot doctors and 1-2 health care workers.
  • (17) Founded by Belgian Walter Fischer in 2008, Barefoot Acupuncturists now has four clinics – two in Mumbai’s slums and two in rural Tamil Nadu – to bring holistic care to low-income communities.
  • (18) The plantar pressure distributions for a large heterogeneous sample of feet (N = 107) were collected during barefoot standing using a capacitance mat.
  • (19) An important issue is to what extent the findings of high-technology medicine can be successfully combined with the barefoot concept of delivery.
  • (20) While the patients were walking barefooted, some adverse effects of fusion of the ankle were evident.

Calced


Definition:

  • (a.) Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Substitution of the first 30 nucleotides of CALC I exon 4 with analogous CALC II sequence was sufficient to prevent recognition of exon 4 in in vitro or in vivo RNA splicing systems.
  • (2) However, for the diagnosis of minor defects in renal calces, the vasculature and for the detection of small stones, this technique needs still to be improved.
  • (3) The deduced amino acid sequences of both genes show that profilin I in comparison to profilin II is slightly larger (13,064 Da vs 12,729 Da), has a more acidic isoelectric point (calc.
  • (4) Baseline risk factors with probability levels that suggest a relationship to PVD were, in women, age versus CALC (P less than 0.01), age versus NPUL (P less than 0.05), weight versus NPUL (P less than 0.05), systolic BP versus CALC (P less than 0.01), summed glucose tolerance test versus CALC (P less than 0.01), and triglyceride level versus CALC (P less than 0.05).
  • (5) The LMI responses to HBsAg in CLD patients were elevated (median response 38%) and the responses of chronic asymptomatic carriers and CALC patients were either in the normal range or poor (median responses, 18 and 7% respectively), irrespective of their sALT levels.
  • (6) Significant inhibition of BHV CALC was also observed with prereleased matrices (5 months in vitro), thus demonstrating prolonged efficacy.
  • (7) In primates, CF and Calc had longer decay times than Naf.
  • (8) The first gene (CALC-I) directing the synthesis of calcitonin (CT) or CT gene-related peptide (CGRP) comprises six exons and gives rise to two mRNAs by an alternative RNA-processing mechanism.
  • (9) Thus, CaLc appears to work as a mere Ca-receptive subunit in Physarum myosin, with the secret of the inhibition lying in other subunits.
  • (10) The correlation obtained between ED50 exp and ED50 calc for this series was r = 0.916, F = 60.25.
  • (11) Mouse-Chinese hamster hybrids segregating mouse chromosomes were analyzed by Southern hybridization techniques to map the genes for somatostatin (Smst), glucagon (Gcg), calcitonin (Calc), and parathyroid hormone (Pth).
  • (12) Tissue staining and dye leakage into the vitreous immediately after retinal photocoagulation were minimal with Calc, moderate with CF, and marked with Naf.
  • (13) The CALC genes and this last (pseudo) gene are located on the short arm of chromosome 11.
  • (14) A genomic locus in man (CALC-III) containing nucleotide sequences highly homologous to both exon 2 and exon 3 of the CALC-I and -II genes, is described in this paper.
  • (15) Expression of the CALC-I gene was not detected in any of the six cell lines.
  • (16) We previously reported that model precursor RNAs containing the exon 3 to exon 5 region of the CALC-I gene are processed predominantly into CGRP-I mRNA in vitro, in nuclear extracts of several cell types (neural and non-neural).
  • (17) Until recently, expression of the CALC-II gene had been detected only in a metastasis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
  • (18) Hence, the CCr and the calc-CCr, derived using Schwartz values for k, consistently overestimate GFR.
  • (19) The CALC-II gene produces a second human CGRP, but probably not a second CT.
  • (20) Using a model precursor RNA containing the exon 3 to exon 5 region of the human CALC-I gene we have investigated the Calcitonin- and CGRP-I mRNA-specific processing reactions in vitro, in nuclear extracts of Hela, PC12 and Ewing-1B cells, respectively.

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