(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.
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(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.
Unshod
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It is hypothesized that the adaptations which produce shock absorption, an inherent consequence of barefoot activity and a mechanism responsible for the low injury frequency in unshod populations, are related to deflection of the medial longitudinal arch of the foot on loading.
(2) Significant differences between the predominance in shod and unshod children were noted in all age groups, most marked in those with generalised ligament laxity.
(3) Flat foot was most common in children who wore closed-toe shoes, less common in those who wore sandals or slippers, and least in the unshod.
(4) Among the acquired forms was idiopathic hallux varus of middle age, which developed spontaneously in unshod persons and progressed gradually.
(5) This paper describes the application of foil strain gauges to the hoof wall, and the use of measuring equipment to monitor weightbearing and changes in hoof shape in shod and unshod horses.
(6) The Harris mat footprint test is a static used when the patient is unshod.