(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.
Straddle
Definition:
(v. i.) To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.
(v. i.) To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
(v. t.) To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.
(n.) The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.
(n.) The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.
(n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities.
Example Sentences:
(1) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
(2) embed Even globe-straddling colossus Philip Morris International (PMI), owner of brands including Marlboro, has set its stall out for a “smoke-free” future, where nicotine addicts get their fix from vaping and other non-tobacco products.
(3) Eitan was born Rafael Kaminsky in the moshav of Tel Adashim near Nazareth, straddling the Jezreel Valley across from Megiddo, better known as Armageddon.
(4) Fourthly, the atrioventricular connection is determined as follows: (1) usual alignment, (2) criss-crossing, (3) straddling, (4) double inlet, and (5) unilateral atrioventricular valve atresia, by using an apical four-chamber echo view.
(5) For the first time even the relatively affluent will approach old age still straddled with mortgages, and still financially supporting adult children through paying for their education and housing.
(6) Some are retired, others straddle the uncertain worlds of petty trading, agriculture and seasonal migrant labour.
(7) All patients showed improvement after 4 weeks' treatment on either drug and of 12 parameters measured only two showed a statistically significant favour to phenylbutazone (intermalleolar straddle and intercondylar distance; both when pain first appeared).
(8) The n-bandlets straddle the midline glia and are known to produce most of the central neuroblasts.
(9) A heart is described with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, normally positioned atria, and a straddling mitral valve.
(10) Most PV-immunoreactive (PV-IR) neurons were restricted to a 25 to 60 microns thick band straddling the border between lamina II and III.
(11) Third-world” Caernarfon, my local town when I was growing up, is straddled by two council estates: Ysgybor Goch and Maesincla.
(12) The elusive Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , who on 29 June proclaimed a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, made his appeal in a sermon delivered on Friday, in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
(13) Mild reflux occurred in three patients in whom the stent tubes straddled the distal esophageal sphincter.
(14) A case of straddling tricuspid valve associated with VSD was presented, who was diagnosed as VSD with pulmonary hypertension but not diagnosed as straddling in preoperative state.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In a joint statement two of China’s most powerful political bodies, the central committee and state council, described the new city, which will straddle three counties about 100km southwest of Beijing, as “a strategy crucial for a millennium to come”.
(16) A fourth zebrin II+ compartment straddles the paravermian region (P4+).
(17) The germ for this beta 2-microglobulin-like domain is already found in the cell adhesion protein of the slime mold straddling the border between unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes.
(18) Ninety-seven percent of the dermoids were found in the temporal half of the globe; of these, 76 percent were in the inferolateral quadrant, straddling the corneoscleral limbus.
(19) With one foot in the underworld and the other in the entertainment business, he is straddling two camps and ultimately has two systems working in his favour.
(20) The downhill skiing here is never too hard, although there are a few black runs around the surrounding mountains, and the highest peak is La Dôle , at 1,677m, straddling the French-Swiss border.