Word Finder - limb

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A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

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A branch of a tree.

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• bough

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The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.

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An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

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A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

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The part of a corolla beyond the throat.

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To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).

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They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.

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To supply with limbs.

The limb held, but her shoulder didn't.

He dropped to a limb closer to the ground.

Then bandage the limb downwards, progressing towards the wound; repeat this several times.

A thick limb jutted up sharply, as if throwing an arm out for help.

While the limb was sore, the injury was minor.

Aside from the limb that still stuck down through the ceiling into her bed, the room was a mess.

Above this point springs the large median dorsal limb, which terminates in groups of long setae.

As was suggested at the outset, railway accident statistics are useful only as showing how to make life and limb safer, though in pursuing this object increased economy should also be secured.

The petiole or leaf-stalk is the part which unites the limb or blade of the leaf to the stem.

The limb of the calyx may appear as a rim, as in some Umbelliferae; or as pappus, in Compositae and Valeriana.

The two distal endites are regarded as corresponding to the endopodite and exopodite of the higher Crustacea, the axis or corm of the Phyllopod limb representing the protopodite.

Lankester (5) has shown (and his views have been accepted by Professors Korschelt and Heider in their treatise on Embryology) that the limb of the lowest Crustacea, such as Apus, consists of a corm or axis which may be jointed, and gives rise to outgrowths, either leaf-like or filiform, on its inner and outer margins (endites and exites).

There is no reason to suppose that any of the forms of limb observed in Arthropoda may not have been independently developed in two or more separate diverging lines of descent.

Similarly, polymyalgia rheumatica in the elderly frequently presents with stiffness and pain in limb girdle muscles.

An estimated one in 2,000 babies is born with all or part of a limb missing.

In the hinder limb the femur is marked, as in other perissodactyles, by the presence of a " third trochanter," a flattened process, curving forwards and arising from the outer side of the bone, about one-third of the distance from the upper end.

The metapodals and phalanges resemble very closely those of the fore limb, but the principal metatarsal is more laterally compressed at its upper end than is the corresponding metacarpal.

The bones and joints of the foot have the same names as in the fore limb.

There is also a much smaller second extensor on the outer side of this in each limb, the lateral extensor of the phalanges.

These structures are all enclosed in the middle subcorneous integument, a continuation of the ordinary skin of the limb, but extremely vascular, and having its superficial extent greatly increased by being developed into papillae or laminae.

The part formed by the union of the sepals is called the tube of the calyx; the portion where the sepals are free is the limb.

A petal often consists of two portions - the lower narrow, resembling the petiole of a leaf, and called the unguis or claw; the upper broader, like the blade of a leaf, and called the lamina or limb.

The limb of the petal may be flat or concave, or hollowed like a boat.

When a corolla is gamopetalous it usually happens that the lower portion forms a tube, while the upper parts are either free or partially united, so as to form a common limb, the point of union of the two portions being the throat, which often exhibits a distinct constriction or dilatation.

When they realized just how far out on a limb they were they had to quickly backtrack.

He was brought to the surface and got out of the water, where he suffered blackouts, limb tremors and chest pain.

The young man looped the bridle over a low maple limb, and leaving the horse standing sauntered over to the bench.

Collimate around the sides of the limb and include the whole calcaneus, the distal tibia and the proximal metatarsus.

Limb tone is increased with brisk tendon reflexes, ankle clonus, and bilaterally extensor plantar responses.

The focus will be on treating clubfoot but other lower limb conditions and general issues are covered.

It celebrates the DC athletes who risk life and limb as the ultimate culmination of team talent in the action sports community.

The presence of alien limb syndrome pointed to the diagnosis of " Corticobasal degeneration " .

Wnt signaling regulates myogenic differentiation in the developing avian limb.

From this, the vivisectors made the astounding discovery that the rabbits ' motion decreased the further the limb was stretched.

For example, research into the way genes control limb development in the fertilized chicken egg provides insight into how human limbs develop.

In adults use the upper limb at the medial aspect of the antecubital fossa.

One of its proposals was that attempts must be made to reduce the rate of limb amputations caused by diabetic gangrene by a half.

The image below takes the limb stacking a stage further by closing the strip gaps.

On transfer there he had a right hemiplegia (upper limb lower limb ).

Place the horse's hoof on a block with the limb drawn forward slightly.

Important local growth disturbances including mandibular hypoplasia, and limb and digit length discrepancies may occur.

In the Cumacea and Tanaidacea only the first thoracic limb has a branchial epipodite.

Differential refraction pushes the lower limb upwards to create the highly flattened shape.

Occlusive disease and the resulting ischemia threaten the viability of the lower limb, particularly in diabetics.

Patients undergoing surgery under regional anesthesia initially experience a dull ache in the exsanguinated limb after about 30 minutes of tourniquet application.

An example is the ' knee-jerk ' reflex, which involves a sudden twitch of a limb muscle caused by tapping the tendon.

You look for a withered limb, a shorter leg, different size feet, a caliper.

The gnawing off of a limb is so common that it has been given the term ' wringing off ' by trappers.

The circular curls are the bases for an egg as the tree climbs upward with green, yellow and white decorated eggs on each limb.

Despite her artificial limb, she consistently raised the stakes, incorporating complicated moves and even a back flip into one of her dance routines.