(n.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.
Example Sentences:
(1) A report is given on a small-for-date male infant showing the following symptoms: bilateral aplasia of humerus, radius, and ulna, shortened femora, bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, stigmata of dysmorphism, and notably; simple helix formation of the ear, simian crease, clinodactylia, bilateral clubfoot deformity, hypospadia, thrombocytopenia, micrognathia, and contractures in the knee joints.
(2) The number of children, born alive with clubfoot, and detailed census data for the period were available.
(3) Malformations included constriction bands, clubfoot, intrauterine amputation, syndactyly, and acrosyndactyly (fenestrated syndactyly).
(4) The incidence of congenital clubfoot, neurological disorders excluded, was studied over a period of 45 years (1946-1990).
(5) In operative clubfoot therapy, early operation plays an important role.
(6) The hormonal effects of an etomidate infusion were assessed postoperatively in children undergoing hypospadias or clubfoot repair.
(7) Foot-progression angle was determined using the Shutrack carbon paper system for 52 feet treated by clubfoot release without wide subtalar release and 43 age-matched controls.
(8) We also found talonecrosis after surgical correction of clubfoot, after Sudeck's disease (Sudeck-Leriche syndrome, Sudeck's atrophy or dystrophy), suppurative arthritis of the ankle joint, subtalar luxation and haematogenic osteomyelitis.
(9) External rotation osteotomy to correct internal tibial torsion seems contraindicated in the presence of clubfoot.
(10) The authors have made an attempt to present guidelines for our approach to foot problems other than clubfoot in these age groups and have rendered our recommendations for treatment.
(11) Ankle mortise reconstitution and clubfoot correction by surgery have been the basis of treatment.
(12) She had surgical treatment of clubfoot under halothane anesthesia in other hospital.
(13) Skin problems are the cause of a high incidence of recurrent clubfoot problems.
(14) The histochemical composition of the triceps surae muscle was investigated in 13 previously unoperated children (age 9-24 months) with unilateral idiopathic clubfoot.
(15) No spinal deformities are present and only the proband has clubfoot deformities.
(16) One hundred twenty-four patients (174 feet) were treated for clubfoot deformity, with an average follow-up of 7 years.
(17) The histochemical composition of the abductor hallucis (AH) muscle was investigated in 39 children with idiopathic clubfoot (CF), aged 0-11 years, and in 42 controls.
(18) Clinical symptoms were: low birth weight, growth retardation, dolichocephalus, microgenia, antimongoloid slant of the eyes, edema on hands and feet, strabismus convergens, clubfoot (left), slight decrease in IgA and IgM.
(19) Clubfoot, a relatively frequent congenital malformation, may be associated with several genetic syndromes or other malformations, or may appear as an isolated idiopathic anomaly.
(20) A number of seemingly unrelated congenital deformities of the lower limb have been presented which include clubfoot, fibular deficiency, tibial aplasia, and diplopodia.
Foot
Definition:
(n.) The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.
(n.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.
(n.) That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.
(n.) The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed.
(n.) Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular.
(n.) Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular.
(n.) A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.
(n.) Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.
(n.) A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.
(n.) The lower edge of a sail.
(v. i.) To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
(v. i.) To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly.
(v. t.) To kick with the foot; to spurn.
(v. t.) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
(v. t.) To tread; as, to foot the green.
(v. t.) To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.
(v. t.) The size or strike with the talon.
(v. t.) To renew the foot of, as of stocking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
(2) Rapid injection of 2 m Ci TC 99m into a dorsal vein of the foot produced isotope phlebograms with a Dyna camera 2 C.
(3) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
(4) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(5) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
(6) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
(7) An unusual spectrum of craniofacial and foot abnormalities has been detected within a large midwestern Amish kindred.
(8) MRPs were larger preceding foot movements than preceding finger movements, their onset being earlier also.
(9) 39.5 per cent of children have had suitable foot for weight-bearing, with normal shoes, and 23, 25 per cent have had prosthesis for discrepancy.
(10) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(11) Translation of foot-and-mouth disease virus RNA for extended periods in rabbit reticulocyte lysates results in the appearance of a previously undescribed protein.
(12) In case 2, a 26-year-old man sustained an open total dislocation of the talus with a severe crush wound and impaired circulation to the foot.
(13) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
(14) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(15) Puskas, possessed of a left foot of astonishing power, and his team colleagues, Sandor Kocsis and Zoltan Czibor, all found their way to Spain.
(16) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
(17) This law can be used to simulate the ground reaction force during under-foot impact with a gymnastic surface.
(18) Osteocutaneous flaps from the foot are being utilized more for thumb and digit reconstruction.
(19) Pompholyx (Dyshidrosis) is a disease of unknown etiology presenting as symmetrical, vesicular hand and foot dermatitis.
(20) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.