(n.) A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin told the Itar-Tass news agency: "I think that she has all the necessary qualities, and we support her candidacy.
(2) The Russian Football Union will hold talks with the national team coach Fabio Capello on ending his contract, the Tass news agency quoted a member of the union’s executive committee as saying on Wednesday.
(3) Loose ends in efforts to untangle the Gordian knot of Syria | Letters Read more Moscow, however, angrily dismissed the reports as false, the TASS news agency reported.
(4) The Russian embassy in Ankara said the country’s envoy was summoned twice on Saturday and Monday to address the incursions, according to the Russian Tass news agency.
(5) Evgeniy Khorishko, at the Russian embassy in Washington, also denied the claims, telling Itar-Tass that "such horror stories smack of cold war times".
(6) In Moscow, a Security Council official told Tass that Patrushev “didn’t apologise to anyone, because there is nothing to apologise for”.
(7) Itar-Tass quotes the press agency of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, which says "journalists, cameramen, and photographers will be prohibited during warfare from taking photo, video, or audio, and furthermore from being in active combat zones or in the territory of immediate military objectives."
(8) Russia's Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as saying: "It's a shame that echoes of the cold war are heard in Russian-American relations from time to time."
(9) He also told Tass that it was impossible to resolve Syria crisis in a constructive way without US involvement.
(10) However, Shamil Tarpishchev, president of the Russian Tennis Federation, told the Russian news agency TASS he expected Sharapova to be available for this summer’s Rio Olympics after describing the positive test as “nonsense”.
(11) In April the Russian Itar-Tass agency reported that the refusal to return the gold would result in non-cooperation between Russian and EU museums.
(12) Jo Pavey: ‘As a clean athlete you wonder how many medals you missed out on’ Read more The acting president of the Russian athletics federation, Vadim Zelichenok, told the Tass news agency that there was no proof of a systemic issue.
(13) But Tass sought immediately to put the incident in perspective by listing several foreign nuclear disasters, including the near meltdown of the American Three Mile Island reactor in 1979.
(14) Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of the Russian space agency, told Itar-Tass news agency that a manned trip to Mars was not being considered for at least 20 years.
(15) Tass quotes the service as saying: If ‘revolutionary chaos’ in Ukraine continues, hundreds of thousands of refugees will flow into bordering Russian regions.
(16) Vladimir Boldyrev, the commander of Russian ground forces, was quoted by Tass as saying Russian troops had "fully liberated Tskhinvali from the Georgian military".
(17) This raised suspicions of a certain bias , he told Tass.
(18) The state news agency, Tass, cited an unnamed source saying that Fifa gave the Russian Football Union a $350,000 (£231,000) bonus for the Russian team’s appearance at the World Cup.
(19) My answer will be merci, Jeremy, but, as President Mitterrand once told the BBC about Disneyland, "ce n'est pas ma tasse de thé".
(20) Many companies showed interest,” said Alexander Galushka, according to a report from the Russian news agency Itar-Tass .
Thigh
Definition:
(n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.
(n.) The coxa, or femur, of an insect.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) Symptoms include numbness, tingling and pain in the anterolateral thigh.
(4) The thigh and hip manifestations can obscure the primary intra-abdominal process either due to the obvious emphysema or to the obtunded abdominal signs secondary to associated neuropathy.
(5) Chest and biceps circumferences increased 4.2% and 3.1%, respectively; abdomen and thigh circumferences did not significantly change; body fat decreased 16.8%; and body mass increased 2.3%.
(6) By placing the thigh in external flexion-rotation the deep femoral artery can readily be approached downstream the first perforating artery.
(7) Mean pressures in the thigh approximated more closely to the calculated mean pressures than in the arm.
(8) On physical examination the patients complained of pain on both passive flexion and internal rotation of the hip, and when the thigh was pushed backwards at 90 degrees of flexion.
(9) The transversalis fascia of the floor of the femoral canal turns down to form the medial wall of the venous compartment of the femoral sheath, and has the support of the curved edge of the lacunar ligament which effectively bars the femoral canal from entering the thigh.
(10) Three new and 19 previously reported cases of thigh emphysema secondary to bowel disease are reviewed.
(11) Forty-four patients of meralgia paraesthetica presented with combination of symptoms mainly of numbness with loss of superficial sensation on the anterolateral aspect of a thigh were selected for the study.
(12) Measurements of cross-sectional muscle areas of the upper-arm and mid-thigh from MRI images were compared to corresponding estimates from anthropometric measurements of limb circumferences and skinfold thicknesses in 25 normal, healthy, elderly persons.
(13) Between 1980 and 1990, 24 total thigh flap procedures were performed at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center (Downey, CA) by the Pressure Ulcer Management Service.
(14) A low waist-thigh ratio was associated with a high prevalence of varicose veins in women.
(15) Wistar rats were infected by injection of 0.05 ml of a dense oily suspension of Staphylococcus aureus into the posterior thigh muscles of the hind leg.
(16) In order to assess the efficacy of therapy, manual measurement of the circumference of thigh and leg and echotomography were performed in order to measure the thickness of the muscle layer.
(17) Pelvic nerve: vagina, cervix, and perineal skin; hypogastric nerve: cervix and proximal three fifths of the uterus; pudendal nerve: skin of perineum, inner thigh, and clitoral sheath.
(18) We report on the use of this flap to resurface the anterolateral aspect of the lower thigh and restore stability and extension to the knee joint following extensive damage to the quadriceps mechanism.
(19) No immunosuppressive effect was recognized when injections with HG and MG bacterins were in the left and right thigh muscles, respectively, or from intravenous inoculation with the combined bacterin.
(20) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.