(n.) A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.
(n.) That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers.
(n.) The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
(n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
(n.) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
(n.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
(n.) An extension of the boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; -- called also water leg.
(n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
(n.) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(2) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(3) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(4) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(5) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(7) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(8) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(9) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
(10) A second group was chronically implanted without electrical stimulation in one leg and implanted with cyclical electrical stimulation applied through the electrode in the other leg.
(11) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(12) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
(13) This, however will not result in normal lower leg bones, as can be concluded from the fact that spontaneous fractures have occurred partly even in the locomotor apparatus after the pseudarthroses had healed.
(14) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(15) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(16) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(17) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(18) Heavy death losses (59%) occurred in adult Mystromys 3--14 days after muscle biopsies were taken from their rear legs.
(19) Significant differences were found for the clinical scores for legs with and without previous DVT, which shows that the method is of value despite a not inconsiderable interobserver variation.
(20) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.
Lep
Definition:
(obs. strong imp.) of Leap. Leaped.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six of the dogs had received Flury strain LEP vaccination.
(2) Further, LEP amplitudes in two patients with bilateral independent temporal lobe seizure onset were markedly diminished compared with one patient with a nontemporal lobe seizure onset.
(3) The most characteristic morphological feature of the CMV-infected BAMB cells was the formation of multinucleated giant cells which frequently contained more than a hundred nuclei; such cells were not seen in LEP cultures.
(4) The results suggest that LEPs are under cholinergic modulation.
(5) While in LEP cells most nucleocapsids were enveloped from the inner leaflet of the nuclear membrane, in the other system a great majority of the particles acquired their envelopes by budding into vacuoles.
(6) Both strains of diploide cells WI 38 and LEP and primary cultures of chicken fibroblast from embryos of SPF chickens did not develop any tumors.
(7) This is the biggest single investment in the north of England by a billion miles,” said Barry Dodd, chair of York, North Yorks and East Riding Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), supporting the proposal at Tuesday’s planning meeting in Whitby.
(8) To date, the consensus of the health care teams which are involved with the LEP is that 45 minutes every two weeks for discussion and planning for a selected long-stay patient has been time well spent.
(9) The plan will see £556m allocated to Local Enterprise Partnerships in the north of England, £542m to the Midlands and east of England, and £683m to LEPs in the south-west, south-east and London.
(10) LEP and SOC cell lines were contaminated with mouse cells.
(11) A female patient with disfiguring lupus erythematosus profundus (LEP) from the age of 13 years was found to have an isolated partial C4 deficiency, with reduced levels of both allotypes, C4A and C4B.
(12) With this system the lep gene of Salmonella typhimurium was cloned and the nucleotide sequence was determined.
(13) But he criticises the current quality of LEPs that replaced the regional development agencies, calling for them to be strengthened saying "they currently do not have the authority or resource to transform their locality".
(14) Adeno 7 T-antigen was detected earlier and in a higher percentage of GMK cells than in the fully permissive LEP cells and its formation was only slightly influenced by the incubation temperature.
(15) Human diploid cells (LEP) infected with herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 were extracted by treatment with Nonidet P-40.
(16) The patients receiving Ambroxol showed an increased LEP mean value (T50 = 18.36 min) in comparison with the baseline mean value (T50 = 16.41 min).
(17) Adeno 7 virus replicated well in human diploid (LEP) cells but only to a low degree in green monkey kidney (GMK) cells at 37 degrees C; it did not replicate in either system at 29 degrees C. At 37 degrees C SV 40 virus replicated well in GMK cells but only moderately in LEP cells; at 29 degrees C it did not replicate in either system.
(18) A RNase in all doses used had no effect on cell proliferation, whereas AS RNase exerted inhibitory activity beginning with the dose of 10 microgram, and affected more markedly the LEP cells (a diploid non-malignant cell line) than the malignant heteroploid HeLa cells.
(19) Adonis has decided not to abolish these 39 LEPs but instead significantly reduce their number and revamp their boundaries so they better match travel-to-work areas.
(20) The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of Ambroxol on lung epithelial permeability (LEP) in healthy smokers.