What's the difference between barefoot and discalced?

Barefoot


Definition:

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

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  • (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.

Discalced


Definition:

  • (a.) Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced.

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