(n.) A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.
(n.) A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
(n.) A knee, or piece of knee timber
(n.) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch.
(v. t.) To support on crutches; to prop up.
Example Sentences:
(1) When this parliament votes for another referendum as it inevitably will, thanks to the perpetual crutch that the Greens provide, let’s not pretend it reflects the will of the Scottish people, because it doesn’t.
(2) However, a significant difference (p less than 0.001) in heart rate was noted between elbow crutch users who were non-weight bearing on their injured leg compared with those who were partial-weight bearing.
(3) In addition, the elevated cardiac response may be caused by added physical exertion by the arms in patients on crutches or walkers.
(4) The subjects' posture and endurance also improved, and they spontaneously learned how to use a crutch.
(5) The aim of the operation is to enable the paralysed patient to "stand up himself" and to "cover a short distance on crutches".
(6) Seven subjects were tested using both standard and spring-loaded crutches.
(7) Four children were able to walk on crutches non-weight-bearing after a short period.
(8) Changing gait speed or crutch length did not affect elbow moment.
(9) Injuries have not helped and Van Gaal lost Luke Shaw to an ankle problem; the left-back departed on crutches and with his foot in a protective boot.
(10) However, Lucas, who remains on crutches, fears he has suffered serious damage to the knee and that he faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines.
(11) The photos showed the amputees wearing prosthetic limbs, in wheelchairs and on crutches.
(12) It should be understood by both the physician and patient that the ventilator for the patient population discussed previously acts merely as a "crutch" that will facilitate the process of rehabilitation.
(13) 3) Crutch gait for patients with paraplegia was not practical.
(14) Ideal crutch length was determined by an experienced orthopedic physical therapist, with placement of the axillary pad 2.5 in (6.4 cm) below the axillary fold.
(15) The injured soldiers were ambulatory without plaster cast immobilization or crutches.
(16) Crutch-clipping of the ewe's wool prior to lambing, and total confinement housing at lambing in winter and spring seemed to lower the probability of seroreactivity of the flock (p less than 0.05).
(17) He is in a brace and on crutches and is in a bit of pain – there is a bit of swelling there.
(18) A modification of the elbow crutch, designed to improve medial-lateral stability, was unsuccessful in use due to wrist instability.
(19) The cells on the ground floor house seven people in wheelchairs, and another three on crutches; several people have had strokes in prison; at least two have mild dementia.
(20) From an engineering viewpoint one must consider crutches and walking sticks as dynamic mechanical systems which alleviate a disability; they may act as supports, help the user to recover from stumbling, or transmit from the arms, the energy required to lift the feet from the ground, an action not provided by artificial ankle joints.
Prop
Definition:
(n.) A shell, used as a die. See Props.
(v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.
(v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) The calcium channel blockers 'DMDP' [N-3,4-dimethoxyphenethyl)-N-methyl-2-(2-naphthyl-m-dithane-2-prop ylamine)] and verapamil inhibited the active efflux of adriamycin from adriamycin-resistant P388 leukemia cells but had no effect on the drug-sensitive cell line.
(2) Moscovici added that France wants the summit to set up a eurozone banking union, which would take on responsibility for propping up failing banks and guarantee depositors' savings across the 17 countries.
(3) The "Be Kind Rewind Protocol", as he calls it, involves setting up small studios with modest sets and facilities – props, back-projection footage, video cameras – so that groups of people can make their own amateur movies together according to anti-auteurist rules drawn up by Gondry.
(4) A popular strain of foreign policy thought has long held that the US should be guided primarily by self-interest rather than human rights concerns: hence, since the US wants its Fifth Fleet to remain in Bahrain and believes ( with good reason ) that these dictators will serve US interests far better than if popular will in these countries prevails, it is right to prop up these autocrats.
(5) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
(6) 15 human tumour cell lines (lung, breast and colon) have been evaluated for their sensitivity to the quinone based anti-cancer drugs Mitomycin C, Porfiromycin, and EO9 (3-hydroxymethyl-5-aziridinyl-1-methyl-2-(IH-indole-4,7-dione)prop-beta- en-alpha-ol).
(7) Although the CBI supported the reforms, there was heavy lobbying from other EU business groups to reject the reforms, that would have helped to prop up the price of carbon dioxide permits to businesses.
(8) Replays cast doubt on the penalty decision, the ball having been touched by the Australian replacement scrum-half, Nick Phipps, before the referee, Craig Joubert, adjudged the Scottish prop Jon Welsh caught it while standing in an offside position.
(9) We know this system doesn't work – and yet we prop it up with ignorance and indifference.
(10) Theresa May’s plan for a loose alliance with the Democratic Unionists to prop up her government was thrown into confusion on Saturday night after the Northern Ireland party contradicted a No 10 announcement that a deal had been reached.
(11) A variety of interventional endovascular instruments have been produced and used in a wide field of pathologies: balloons for proximal clamping, distal embolization by particles, arterial desobstruction by seeking devices, propping of vascular lumen by stenting, in situ infusion of drugs (fibrinolysis), filters, foreign body retrieval systems.
(12) Mariah Carey 's need for a staff member to carry her drink and prop up the bendy bit of her straw is what makes me love her so much.
(13) Prop therapy also reduced atrial and RV hypertrophy.
(14) Inside, Suge is propped up on a mattress on the floor watching soap operas, an overflowing spittoon at his side.
(15) However, charities must expect to be "pit props" to some extent.
(16) He pointed out that some of the fall was down to the expiry of a government scheme expiring that had "artificially propped up" the housing market over the past year.
(17) It was pored over by line producers, prop masters, location scouts, production designers, scenic designers, costume designers, directors, assistant directors, second assistant directors, and second second assistant directors – at each step becoming more real, as if emerging from the shimmer of some distant desert horizon.
(18) The compound (E)-4-2-(5,6,7,8)tetrahydro-5,5,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphtalenyl)prop enyl benzoic acid (Ro 1374-10) was approximately 2-3 orders of magnitude more potent than all-trans-retinoic acid in inhibiting breast carcinoma cell proliferation while the compound SRI-6409-40, which differs from Ro 1374-10 only by the position of a methyl group, was 50-fold more potent than Ro 1374-10.
(19) The abandon of comedy is always there, though, the feeling of, “Fuck it, let’s try that TONIGHT!” because the audience’s expectations are different at a late-night comedy thing and they don’t mind crappy props and people reading scripts, and if it dies there’s always tomorrow.
(20) The collapsing economy was propped up only by loans from wealthy Gulf countries.