(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.
Macropod
Definition:
(n.) Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; -- called also spider crab.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs, necropsy findings and histopathological changes are summarized for 43 macropods, two common wombats, two koalas, six possums, 15 dasyurids, two numbats, eight bandicoots and one bilby.
(2) The percentage bacterial composition of dental plaques from 12 macropods was determined.
(3) Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis, previously shown to be a relatively simple and reproducible method for distinguishing discrete strains of E. granulosus, could not discriminate between E. granulosus originating from central Queensland macropod marsupials, Australian mainland sheep or United Kingdom sheep.
(4) The major seminal sugar of the three macropod species was N-acetylglucosamine and glucose was also present in quite large concentrations.
(5) An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed to measure total antibody to Toxoplasma gondii in serum samples from macropods.
(6) Proliferative lesions were present in 14 macropods, 26 koalas, two wombats and 22 possums and gliders.
(7) Neutral beta-galactosidase (lactase) activity was absent from crude brush borders of small intestines of three species of suckling macropods (kangaroos and wallabies), even though the intestinal mucosal homogenates had high beta-galactosidase activities.
(8) Surveys were made of the worm burdens of feral goats, possums and Kangaroo Island Wallabies from places where macropods and ungulates graze together.
(9) This report presents information on the range of diseases and lesions that occurred in sections of livers of macropods held in the Non-Domestic Animal Registry at Taronga Zoo.
(10) The results suggest that the absorptive-digestive mechanism for lactose in macropods is fundamentally different from that in eutherian mammals.
(11) On 17 farms either macropods were killed for dog food or dogs were suspected of hunting macropods or scavenging their carcases.
(12) The development of the lymphoid tissues in a macropod marsupial is described.
(13) Isozyme differences were found between protoscoleces derived from different cysts in three sheep and three macropod marsupials.
(14) Small foci of the domestic strain of E. granulosus may be maintained in a cycle involving dingoes, macropods and possibly feral pigs in cattle raising areas of coastal Queensland.
(15) In addition, the concentration of 2-mercaptoethanol required to destroy the IgM fraction of macropod serum was confirmed in a modified direct agglutination test.
(16) These data on body mass and tissue proportions translate directly into center of gravity, strength-to-weight ratio, and muscular (kinetic) chains, key elements of macropod evolution.
(17) Negative MA test results to hardjo antigens were recorded in 55 mountain possums (T. caninus), 63 macropods (Macropus spp.
(18) One hundred and fifty-one Bennett's wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus) and 85 T. billardierii were also tested to determine the prevalence of acute toxoplasmosis of macropods in the wild.
(19) The strain of E. granulosus in both patients was genetically indistinguishable from that found in macropods, dingoes and sheep from New South Wales and the United Kingdom.
(20) At rates of travel observed in the field, the estimated energy cost of transport in large macropods is less than one-third the cost for a quadruped of equivalent body mass.