(n.) Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(3) In the improved group, the families reported that the gait abnormality preceded the dementia in 11 patients and occurred at the same time in five.
(4) Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening.
(5) On admission, neurological examination revealed staggering gait and the right cerebellar ataxia showing dysmetria and dysdiadochokinesis.
(6) In the gait initiation protocol, the amplitude and synchronization of the TA burst were directly correlated with velocity of movement, while the relative delay between soleus inhibition and TA activation was inversely correlated.
(7) No significant improvements or losses were found in a large series of gait parameters.
(8) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
(9) In this paper, the authors reported a case of 6-year-old girl who complained of the progressive gait disturbance.
(10) The data suggest that throughout most of the gait cycle and normal stair climbing, the passive structures contribute a small portion of the total moment, usually well less than 10%.
(11) The function of the prosthesis was assessed through clinical assessment and force plate gait analysis.
(12) A 52-year-old female was admitted with a chief complaint of progressive gait disturbance over the previous 16 months.
(13) Mean tandem gait speed improved 48% after training.
(14) Normal gait was associated with flexor contraction only when the foot was lifted and placed on the ground, whereas during ischaemic blockade flexor contraction continued during the interval between foot lifting and foot placement.The `freezing' or `blocking' gait in Parkinson's disease was found to be associated with coactivation of flexor and extensor muscles and this phenomenon occurred only in patients with features of flexion dystonia in the electromyographic recordings of their tonic stretch reflexes.
(15) Moreover in the symmetrical gaits spatial phase shifts between unilateral limbs were equal to zero, which means that hind and fore limbs were placed in the same point during successive steps.
(16) Also, the FES antigravity action obtained raises hopes for substantially improving FES induced reciprocal gait.
(17) Clinical gait analysis is a term that can be applied to numerous methods of evaluating a subject's walking pattern.
(18) Six children with low-level myelomeningocele underwent gait analysis.
(19) The functional recovery of the patients was assessed every week by using the Barthel Index and the Action Research Arm test, by registering walking velocity, and by performing gait analysis.
(20) These changes were considered to be the result of talipes equinus and waddling gait, which are commonly demonstrated in patients with DMD.
Limp
Definition:
(v. i.) To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.
(n.) A halt; the act of limping.
(n.) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
(a.) Flaccid; flabby, as flesh.
(a.) Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.
Example Sentences:
(1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(2) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(3) He limped around in the beginning but the injury worsened.
(4) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(5) Despite the 2 operations and extensive medical treatment with vasodilators, anticoagulants, and other medication, the pain and limp persisted and a cutaneous necrosis of the 1st and 5th left toes was observed.
(7) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(8) The Bruins, on the other hand, limped into the playoffs, with everyone wondering where their firepower had gone.
(9) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
(10) The girl's mother, who I learned later, had recently arrived in Danané with her daughter after escaping the fighting in Abidjan, lifted the limp body and carried it out of the house to where we were parked.
(11) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
(12) This team may have limped to the 50-point mark with their draw against the champions, but they have been pining for the end of this campaign for months.
(13) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
(14) If that happened, he could get up and limp across the street to the safety of the Indymedia centre, where he had spent the past three days filing reports on the G8 summit and on its violent policing.
(15) To determine whether limping is associated with decreased bone mineralization, the trabecular and integral bone densities (BDs) of 18 Caucasian children exhibiting computed tomographic evidence of tarsal coalition (14 boys, 4 girls, aged 9 years, 5 months to 16 years, 3 months) were compared with those of an age- and sex-matched control group.
(16) By then Wenger's frown lines had deepened in the wake of some heavy limping on Mikel Arteta's part.
(17) Today, he suffers from partial paralysis on the left side of his body, and has a limp and limited use his left arm.
(18) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
(19) In cultured cells, the general immunostaining patterns observed in vivo were maintained during the duration of the primary cultures for all five LIMPs.
(20) For Manchester City, Yaya Toure will return to their starting line-up, having been suspended for their match against Bayern Munich, but Micah Richards will miss today's game after limping off against Bayern with a hamstring injury.