(n.) The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.
(n.) Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison.
Example Sentences:
(1) Minimal thresholds of IM reached 3-10 microA for the MR of the shoulder and forearm, but were as high as 30-200 microA in the MR of the haunch and lower leg.
(2) At full-time, he crouched on to his haunches and stared blankly at the turf.
(3) The Croat kicked every pass, jumped to head every high ball into the box, railed at the Polish referee, sank to his haunches when Liverpool attacked and leapt up and down as Besiktas formed a wall to defend a Jordan Henderson free-kick from 25 yards.
(4) She wouldn't be able to support her own weight, sitting on her haunches, after the bullet wound to the hip, says Nel.
(5) We did not observe a geometrical pattern of organization in the more caudally placed MR of the hindleg, where IM elicited isolated responses in the muscles of the lower leg and the haunch.
(6) Others, sitting on their haunches, carefully swirl the dust in shallow plastic buckets.
(7) The latent periods of the EMG responses lasted 25-52 msec for the shoulder, 24-73 msec for the forearm, 32-54 msec for the haunch, and 36-71 msec for the lower leg.
(8) The fox slunk down, raising its haunches and pressing its chest to the ground.
(9) D id you hear that?” Dafne Schippers says with a grimace after her knees make a loud cracking sound when she sinks down on to her haunches to have her photograph taken.
(10) The Republic of Ireland's players sank to their haunches as the Austrian supporters massed behind the goal pierced the sub-zero evening with their celebrations.
(11) It was noticeable at full-time that a few of their players sank on to their haunches, their glaze fixed upon the turf while the visiting Tottenham fans clapped their , and Arsène Wenger articulated the frustration.
(12) Your sudden craving for venison haunch can be satisfied that very day, and without the horror of being told off by the self-service checkout.
(13) It sits on its haunches in the crook of a girl's arm, gently licking her skin.
(14) At the final whistle Steven Gerrard was on his haunches.
(15) As men and women find a quiet and secluded corner and start going down on their haunches, Pradeep and his friends spring out whistling and topple their dabbas of water.
(16) Within 3-4 hours of birth they were able to walk supporting their full weight, right themselves rapidly, sit upright on their haunches, or rear upright with support, and vocalize.
(17) It has either been dormant, the subject of bids from people like Charles Saatchi, who wanted to open his gallery there, or occupied by commercial gallery tenants, including Haunch of Venison and, currently, Pace.
(18) Polly Morgan's latest show, Psychopomps, is at Haunch of Venison, London W1, until 25 September.
Loin
Definition:
(n.) That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
(2) However, trimmed hams and loins from the 20-ppm RAC treatment represented a greater (P less than .05) percentage of carcass weight than did those from control animals.
(3) Stimulation increased the tenderness of loin steaks as determined by both panel scores and shear values, and of bottom round steaks (shear-force values).
(4) More than half of the symptoms were located to the head-neck or back-thorax-loin.
(5) Platelet life span was shortened and the index of renal platelet localization increased when patients with the loin pain and haematuria syndrome received oestrogens.
(6) He was admitted on August 14, 1991, because of right loin pain.
(7) Almost all patients complained of loin pain and 48% had lower urinary tract symptoms.
(8) Pigs fed ractopamine had shorter carcasses, less fat depth and fat area, smaller weights of stomach and colon plus rectum, but higher dressing percentages, longissimus muscle areas, weights of trimmed Boston butts, picnics and loins, ham lean and predicted amounts of muscle than pigs not fed ractopamine (P less than .05).
(9) One is for loin of pork spiced with green peppercorns.
(10) These results suggest that specific gravity or indicators from the carcass, ham or loin section can be employed to predict percentage of protein in pork carcasses.
(11) Two neonates, with a palpable mass in the loin, turned out to have adrenal haemorrhage.
(12) The larvae were expressed by pressure from 2 lesions, on the neck and the loin, and the pockets were disinfected with alcohol.
(13) In 44.3% of cases the disease started from the general cerebral symptomatology and consciousness disturbance; in 13.6% it started in a brain stroke-like manner followed by the development of the comatose status; in 13.6% of cases from memory disorder and unmotivated actions; in the same percentage of cases, the disease onset was marked by the dominance of dizziness, diplopia, ataxia and central hemiplegia ; in 15.9% the disease started from pains in the stomach, loin and lower limbs.
(14) Coefficients were positive (P greater than .10) for individual pig and litter weights at birth and weaning and for the carcass traits of length, longissimus muscle area and percentage of ham and loin.
(15) It is interesting that in our group not only membranous but also minimal change as well as mesangium proliferative glomerulonephritis had high incidence of RVT (47%, 45% and 36% respectively) Only 6 cases (26%) had a typical acute presentation with severe loin pain, significant increase of urinary protein, enlargement of involved kidney.
(16) Breakpoint analysis indicated that 1.11% lysine maximized longissimus muscle area, whereas trimmed ham and loin weights were maximized at .91 and .98% lysine, respectively.
(17) Loin muscle characteristics indicated that differences in tenderness between breed groups were not attributed to cold shortening effects or differences in amount or integrity of connective tissue.
(18) Contrast-enhanced CT and MR imaging of the kidney were performed in two patients with acute renal failure and severe loin pain following a track race.
(19) We describe four patients who presented with either a marked systemic illness or a loin mass due to pyonephrosis.
(20) For older children, loin or abdominal pain was the chief presenting symptom (68%).