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Girdle

Definition:

(n.) A griddle.
(n.) That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.
(n.) The zodiac; also, the equator.
(n.) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
(n.) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
(n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
(v. t.) To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
(v. t.) To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
(v. t.) To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

Example Sentences:

(1) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(2) In severely impaired limbs, there was a marked shift in both the peak EMG angle and the angular domain of EMG activity for both biceps and triceps muscle groups, away from the normal elbow flexion-extension axis towards external humeral rotation and shoulder girdle elevation.
(3) Two cases of Tikhor-Linberg resection for rhabdomyosarcoma and malignant chondromyxoid fibroma and two cases of scapulectomy for metastatic disease of the shoulder girdle are reviewed.
(4) Weakness and amyotrophy of shoulder girdle were noticed.
(5) It is stated that the clavicle contributes significantly to the stability of the shoulder girdle, and that in man the presence of this bone represents an increase in the degree of freedom of the upper extremity mobility pattern, dependent on the transversal shape of the thoracic diameter.
(6) (2) It is suggested that the boundaries of the bipolar limb system lie in the girdle skeleton and at the distal end of the limb, respectively, and that it is the apical epidermis of the growing or regenerating limb which defines the distal boundary conditions.
(7) The author investigated postural change of respiratory function in 12 patients with myotonic dystrophy (MYD), and 7 patients with limb-girdle dystrophy (LG) and overnight polysomnography was performed on 10 patients with MYD and 5 patients with LG.
(8) There thus exists a passive control, of ligamentous origin, of movements of the shoulder-girdle.
(9) Repetition strain injury of the supraspinatus muscle is not an isolated event, but rather a form of microtrauma that affects the entire shoulder girdle.
(10) This procedure is manifested in the region of system-immanent weak spots of the positional and locomotor system and, in the pelvic girdle region by tipping of the pelvis in ventral direction, with consecutive evasive shifts of the vertebral column and extremities.
(11) The girdle epidermis of adult Mopalia muscosa secretes several types of structures, including calcareous spicules and innervated hairs.
(12) Unstained fibers were observed in mitochondrial myopathies, in Becker, Emery-Dreifuss, limb-girdle, facio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophies, muscle infarction, polymyositis, motor neuron diseases and neuropathies.
(13) Thirteen were located within or between muscles of the limbs, limb girdles, and head and neck.
(14) In the remaining two patients, one with limb girdle dystrophy and the other with dystrophia myotonica, cardiomyopathy was present in addition to the conduction disturbance.
(15) Although fractures of the humerus, scapula, and clavicle are common throughout life, most problems encountered between the ages of 15 and 60 are related to the ligaments, tendons, and muscles of the shoulder girdle.
(16) In 95 fresh and fixed anatomical preparations, peculiarities of topographic-anatomical relations and morphometric indices of magistral arteries and their large branches have been studied in the pelvic girdle and a free hind extremity in mongrel dogs according to the type of their habitus.
(17) Other unusual features included the absence of muscle cramps at any stage, asymmetrical wasting of the shoulder girdle muscles and calf hypertrophy.
(18) This phenomenon was observed, though to a lower degree, in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
(19) Downward migration of shoulder girdle and muscle variations are analyzed.
(20) His symptoms consisted principally of parasthesias and proximal weakness of both upper and lower extremities with atrophy of the shoulder and pelvic girdles.