(n.) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.
(n.) Alt. of Hough
(v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the one hand, he has used it as an opportunity to paint Ukip as demonised by a media in hock to the politically correct establishment.
(2) Skin sensation was absent distal to the mid tibial or hock level.
(3) Direct arterial pressures were measured via cannulation of the dorsal pedal artery and were correlated with indirect measurements through an inflatable cuff placed over the dorsal pedal artery below the hock joint of the contralateral limb.
(4) "Management – ie me – are not in hock to Chris.
(5) We find Hocking sitting in her tiny, sparsely furnished apartment in Austin, Minnesota.
(6) A stick, 5 to 6 cm long, made of a glass capillary tube, or, aluminium foil, with ends bended as a hock, are weighted up to 0.001 g. Introduce one stick previously weighted in diluted plasma.
(7) Osteochondritis dissecans was often found bilaterally in the knee and hock joint and this was interpreted as an indication that osteochondritis dissecans is a manifestation of a generalized condition called osteochondrosis.
(8) Here Paul Gleeson and Ban-Hock Toh discuss how the identification of these gastric parietal cell autoantigens and the development of a mouse model of autoimmune gastritis have paved the way for an understanding of the pathogenesis of the gastric lesion.
(9) Trauma to the hock was known to have occurred in half the cases and was suspected in the others.
(10) Synovial fluids collected from hock joints of arthritic birds and peripheral blood leukocytes obtained from the birds with respiratory problems were used for virus isolation in embryonated chicken eggs, and Vero and BGM-70 cell cultures.
(11) The diagnosis, aetiology, pathogenesis and treatment of osteochondritis dissecans in the shoulder, elbow, stifle and hock joints of the dog is reviewed.
(12) An increased incidence of lesions of the navel, hocks, and nares was observed, but regression analyses showed them to be relatively unimportant in the determination of body weights.
(13) Results showed that in healed clinically and histologically noninflamed gingiva, the vascular morphology was established as a series of looped vessels which could readily be distinguished from the regular network of vessels described by Hock (1975) in marginal gingiva that had neither been inflamed nor resected.
(14) For him, "a world in which we are no longer burdened by debt, credit, hock, mortgage, HP, might not be a grievous loss but a deliverance … a more modest and more prudent way of living".
(15) Cartilage glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) were measured by a spectrophotometric assay in synovial fluid obtained from 30 normal bovine hock joints and 15 osteoarthritic human knee joints.
(16) Mladic is yet to appoint a defence lawyer and will spend the coming days meeting court officials and deciding how he wants to proceed, Hocking said.
(17) Cellulitis which extended from the coronet to above the carpus or hock was more severe and had a poorer prognosis than cellulitis distal to these joints.
(18) Seven lambs treated with one hindlimb bound to the body, with the hip fully flexed and the stifle and hock fully extended, were reared from the day after birth to about three months old, together with two untreated controls.
(19) The anatomy of the dorsal pouch of the proximal intertarsal joint (PIJ) and its communication with the tarsocrural joint (TCJ) was studied in 15 pairs of hocks from young and mature horses.
(20) The government dropped plans for legislation in the summer, prompting accusations that David Cameron was in hock to the tobacco lobby.
Knee
Definition:
(n.) In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg.
(n.) The joint, or region of the joint, between the thigh and leg.
(n.) In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in man.
(n.) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
(n.) A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy.
(v. t.) To supplicate by kneeling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
(2) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(3) A two-year follow-up was available for fifty-nine of the treated knees.
(4) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
(5) The design of a simple dynamic knee simulator is described.
(6) Knee preservation is an important factor for better rehabilitation.
(7) Huth, a Stoke player for more than five years, has made only one Premier League appearance since suffering a knee injury in November 2013.
(8) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
(9) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(10) Aside from cadaver knees, there has been only one report of a successful in vivo training model.
(11) Five cases of bilateral abduction contracture of the shoulder in adults including the first case of bilateral abduction contractures of shoulder and hip plus bilateral flexion contracture of elbow and extension contracture of a knee are reported.
(12) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
(13) Flexion of the knee beyond 40 degrees progressively diminished viability of the edges of the wound, particularly the lateral edge.
(14) In these three patients, laxity of the knee in flexion was so severe that posterior instability could not be corrected merely by patellar relocation.
(15) In 297 knees examined under local anesthesia, no complications were encountered.
(16) The percentage of those who felt they had successful results decreased with time: 82.8% felt their knees had improved immediately after postoperative rehabilitation; this decreased to 78.1% at 6 months, 73.5% at 1 year, 65.5% at 2 years, and 50.0% at 3 years.
(17) Nonoperative treatment in the adult patient has been shown to accelerate degenerative arthritis, which involves all 3 compartments of the knee.
(18) There were no significant effects of training on the time-related contractile properties (time to peak torque, half-relaxation time), CSA, or %MUA of the elbow flexors or knee extensors.
(19) Such deformities may be the only future indication for the use of this operation as these knees do not do well when treated by tibial osteotomy.
(20) Two types of mechanoreceptor have been found in the articular capsule of the knee joint of the domestic cat--Ruffini corpuscles and Pacinian corpuscles.