What's the difference between course and leg?

Course


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
  • (n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
  • (n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
  • (n.) Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.
  • (n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
  • (n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
  • (n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
  • (n.) A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.
  • (n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
  • (n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
  • (n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
  • (n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
  • (n.) The menses.
  • (v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
  • (v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
  • (v. t.) To run through or over.
  • (v. i.) To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
  • (v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
  • (2) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
  • (3) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
  • (4) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
  • (5) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (6) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
  • (7) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
  • (8) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
  • (9) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
  • (10) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
  • (11) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
  • (12) The time-course and dose-response for this modification of pp60c-src paralleled PDGF-induced increases in phosphorylation of pp36, a major cellular substrate for several tyrosine-specific protein kinases.
  • (13) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
  • (14) The course of urogenital tuberculosis is complicated by unspecific bacterial infections of the urinary tract and nephrolithiasis.
  • (15) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
  • (16) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
  • (17) The time course of the current potentiation was similar to that seen with beta-adrenergic stimulation.
  • (18) Such complications as intracerebral haematoma or meningeal haemorrhage may occur during the usually benign course of the disease.
  • (19) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (20) The course was further complicated by administration of gentamicin, an antibiotic known to potentiate neuromuscular blocking drugs.

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.

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