Word Finder - locomotion

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The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.

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Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.

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(often preceded by definite article) A dance, originally popular in the 1960s, in which the arms are used to mimic the motion of the connecting rods of a steam locomotive.

Locomotion is effected by means of the legs, with the body fully extended.

The foot is usually the pnly organ of locomotion.

Enormous engineering difficulties had to be overcome, originating not so much from the nature of the ground as from intense public prejudice against the new mode of locomotion.

Crawling is a more advanced locomotion than creeping.

As in the Rotifera, it serves the veliger larva as an organ of locomotion.

Beginning with a chapter on the means of locomotion in the 10th century, it went on to discuss war, the conflict of languages, faith, morals, the elimination of the unfit, and other general topics, with remarkable acuteness and constructive ability.

One of the major tasks in gross motor development is locomotion, the ability to move from one place to another.

Creeping-A form of locomotion in infants, in which the baby pulls the body forward with the arms while the belly and legs drag behind.

It is based on his theory of the four pillars of human movement, which include locomotion, level changes, pushing and pulling as well as rotary movements.

For example, locomotion can be represented by balancing on a balance board while tossing a medicine ball.

Their organs of locomotion are the ribs, the number of which is very great, nearly corresponding to that of the vertebrae of the trunk.

The phrase " charging " is not used or defined in any of the texts exploring animal locomotion.

While infants are learning these temporary means of locomotion, they are gradually becoming able to support increasing amounts of weight while in a standing position.

Scolex with four outgrowths forming organs of adhesion and probably also of locomotion.

Horses do not live, and all wheeled traffic is done by manual labour - hammocks and sedan-chairs are the customary means of locomotion.

Along the dorsal side runs the characteristic fin-like expansion of the body, the undulating-membrane, which is the organella principally concerned in locomotion.

The foot is a muscular mass without cuticle or skeleton, excepting certain cuticular structures such as the byssus of Lamellibranchs and the operculum of Gastropods, which do not aid in locomotion.

Crime, with the many facilities offered for rapid locomotion to those who committed it, had ceased to be merely local, and the whole state rather than individual communities ought to be taxed; prison charges should be borne by the public exchequer and not by local rates.

Swimming is perhaps the commonest mode of locomotion, but numerous forms have taken to creeping or walking, and the robber-crab (Birgus latro) of the Indo-Pacific islands even climbs palm-trees.

In many Entomostraca (Phyllopoda, Cladocera, Ostracoda, Copepoda) they are important, and sometimes the only, organs of locomotion.

This form is retained, with little alteration in some adult Copepoda, where the biramous " palp " still aids in locomotion.

In a few Ostracoda, by a rare exception, the masticatory process is reduced or suppressed, and the palp alone remains, forming a pediform appendage used in locomotion as well as in the prehension of food.

Electricity had even a greater effect on communication than steam oii locomotion; and electricity, as a practical invention, had its origin in the reign.

Prior to the introduction of carriages horseback was the means of locomotion, and Queen Elizabeth rode in state to St Paul's on a pillion; but even after carriages were used, horseback was held to be more dignified, for James I.

The muscular sling that holds the forelimb onto the body serves as a shock absorber during locomotion.

Locomotion Capital leases locomotives in six European countries and is the continentâs largest and most diversified lessor of railroad locomotives.

A similar organization has been found in studying the neuronal networks controlling locomotion in locusts.

Monday's session focused on describing the roles of signaling molecules at the synapse in regulating worm locomotion.

How would you improve this experiment to include the properties of stereotyped locomotion that were not measured in this study?

There will be opportunities for you to work with physiotherapists from the NHS Trust for practical sessions on gait and human locomotion.

Use of hands and feet of three-toed sloths (Bradypus variegatus) during climbing and terrestrial locomotion.

These images can then be analyzed to ascertain what normal elephant locomotion is like.

He was also a great enthusiast and expert on steam locomotion and the national railroad system.

Despite the identification of hundreds of genes involved in C. elegans locomotion, we do not yet have an understanding of its control.

The ultimate cause of evolving locomotion with a low transport costs is to evade pursuit - at which the red deer is extremely good.

The function of alimentation is closely associated with that of locomotion, somewhat as in the burrowing earthworm; in the excavation of its burrows the sand is passed through the body, and any nutrient matter that may adhere to it is extracted during its passage through the intestine, the exhausted sand being finally ejected through the vent at the orifice of the burrow and appearing at low tide as a worm casting.

She has enjoyed some success worldwide and is known for her pop cover of the song Locomotion in 1988.

Crawling is a slow creeping mode of locomotion, consisting of forward motion with weight supported by the infant's hands (or forearms) and knees.

Some babies opt for another method of locomotion around this time, like bottom shuffling (scooting around on their bottom, using a hand behind and a foot in front to propel them), slithering on their stomach, or rolling across the room.

Different children use different means of locomotion and may even skip a stage.

The setae are organs of locomotion, though their large size and occasionally jagged edges in some of the Polychaeta suggest an aggressive function.

One of the most serious administrative problems met with in London is that of locomotion, especially as regards the regulation of traffic in the principal thoroughfares and at the busiest crossings.

Swimming is effected chiefly by the action of the broad forepaws, the hind feet and tail taking little share in locomotion in the water.

During this peculiar locomotion the numerous broad shields of the belly are of great advantage, as by means of their free edges the snake is enabled to catch and use as points of support the slightest projections of the ground.

Most remarkable is its resemblance to the adult form of the Wheel animalcules, or Rotifera, which retain the prae-oral ciliated band as their chief organ of locomotion and prehension throughout life.

The subject of cell locomotion has been a very long one.

In this way the medusa sinks from an independent per sonality to an organ of the polyp-colony, becoming a so-called medusoid gonophore, or bearer of the reproductive organs, and losing gradually all organs necessary for an independent existence, namely those of sense, locomotion and nutrition.

Balfour put forward the view that the polyp was the more primitive type, and that the medusa is a special modification of the polyp for reproductive purposes, the result of division of labour in a polypcolony, whereby special reproductive persons become detached and acquire organs of locomotion for spreading the species.

The trochus forms the powerful currents for locomotion, and for the supply of food material, while the cingulum produces a local current round the upper rim of the corona to bring the food particles direct to the mouth, which is displaced through a postero-ventral gap in the trochus to lie behind the disk, just as occurs in the more specialized Ciliata.

The great problems involved in the study of geographical distribution must therefore be based mainly upon the other classes, both vertebrate and invertebrate, which, moreover, enjoy less great facilities of locomotion than the birds.