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Limbs meaning
plural of limb
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They have rather short limbs compared to the other big cats, but their hind limbs are longer than their front limbs to allow for increased jumping and leaping capabilities.
For years SCE has been responsible for clearing limbs and removing trees from power lines but in 2017 the state standards for clearing tree limbs from power lines changed from a distance of four feet to a recommended 12 feet.
In those permanently affected, paralysis is often more severe where the limbs join the body than it is at the fingertips or toes; feeling is usually still present in the paralysed limbs; and bowel, bladder and sexual functions are usually unaffected.
One Diclonius, Nana, gets her limbs ripped out by Lucy, only to just get new plastic limbs to replace her old ones.
Ascending paralysis presents in the lower limbs before the upper limbs.
Besides it two isothermal limbs, Carnot's cycle has two adiabatic limbs.
Both tails and limbs can be regenerated. citation Adult frogs are unable to regrow limbs but tadpoles can do so.sfn Circulatory system Juvenile amphibian circulatory systems are single loop systems which resemble fish.
Erect limbs probably also helped support the evolution of large size by reducing bending stresses on limbs.
Hemiplegics often adapt by ignoring the limited limbs, and performing nearly all activities with the unaffected limbs, which can lead to increased problems with muscle tone, motor control and range of motion.
In a pacing gait, the limbs on one side of the body are moved simultaneously, just prior to moving both limbs on the other side of the body.
In a symmetrical gait, the left and right limbs of a pair alternate, while in an asymmetrical gait, the limbs move together.
In CIMT, the unaffected limbs are constrained, forcing the individual to learn to use the affected limbs.
In general, the hind limbs are longer than the fore limbs, and they have four or five toes on each paw.
In the walkers and runners the hind limbs are not so large, and the burrowers mostly have short limbs and broad bodies.
Lesions of the lower cervical (C5–T1) region will cause a combination of upper and lower motor neuron signs in the upper limbs, and exclusively upper motor neuron signs in the lower limbs.
Otariids use their front limbs primarily to propel themselves through the water, while phocids and walruses use their hind limbs.
Relative to its large and powerful hind limbs, Tyrannosaurus fore limbs were short but unusually powerful for their size and had two clawed digits.
There are, however, no prosthetic limbs among them, no witnesses to paraplegics whose lost limbs were restored.
The torture was used so intensely that on many occasions the victim's limbs would be pulled out of the socket and, at times, the limbs would even be torn from the body entirely.
They all have four limbs except for the legless caecilians and a few species of salamander with reduced or no limbs.