Search results for "Limb" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • ** Descending limb of loop of Henle ** Ascending limb of loop of Henle *** Thin ascending limb of loop of Henle ...
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  • ===Homology: Pentadactyl limb=== [[Image:Evolution pl.png|thumb|right ... The pattern of limb bones known as a pentadactyl limb is an example ...
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  • as is illustrated, for example, by an immobilized limb. Often times, immobilized or injured limbs swell due to the accumulation of fluid in the interstitial ...
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  • vegetative material such as a tree limb or root and is called limb cast agate due to its appearance. Turritella agate is formed from fossil Turritella ...
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  • Echidna, also known as spiny anteater, is any of the egg-laying mammals comprising the Tachyglossidae family of the order Monotremata (monotremes ...
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  • Hinduism, Samadhi is the eighth and final limb of of Patanjali's Yoga ... is considered to be the eighth or highest limb of yogic practice, where one ...
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  • #039;s glare rising over the Moon's dark limb, and the planets Saturn, Mars and Mercury (the three dots at lower left).]] == Clarification ...
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  • sowing tares and schisms they are tearing her limb from limb, and since they do not receive the true companions of Christ, poverty and humility, but ...
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  • greatly aids branchiation (swinging from tree limb to tree limb with their arms). Hoolocks are the second largest of the gibbons, after the siamang ...
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  • there was known uncertainty owing to limb darkening and measurement errors. ... in the mid-infrared) but factored-in some limb darkening, whereby the intensity ...
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  • refracts light; so, even when the upper limb of the Sun is below the horizon ... *Sunrise and sunset are commonly defined for the upper limb of the ...
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  • plexus nerves, which innervate the upper limb. It includes spinal cord segments ... plexus nerves, which innervate the lower limb. It commences about the level ...
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  • as that of Russell et al. was based on limb-bone allometry rather than ... including at least three skulls and some limb bones, which were recovered ...
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  • orthoses) is a device that attaches to a limb, or the torso, to support ... A limb prosthesis (plural prostheses) is a device that substitutes ...
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  • ===Prohibition against eating the limb of a living animal=== * Not to eat a limb of a living creature (whilst it is still alive) ...
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  • in the solar disk or prominences off the limb. Coronal loops may have lifetimes on the order of seconds (in the case of flare events), minutes ...
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  • Specifically, the sciatic nerve enters the lower limb by exiting the ... to the following muscles of the lower limb: Biceps femoris, semitendinosus ...
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  • rapidly, and differentiate again to create a new limb or organ. One theory is that the de-differentiated cells are related to tumor cells since chemicals ...
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  • perhaps because of) the risk they pose to life and limb. South America has two species of rhea, mid-sized, fast-running birds. The larger American ...
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  • :'Monks, even if bandits were to sever you savagely limb by limb ... "Monks, even if bandits were to savagely sever you, limb by limb ...
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  • less (elderly) or refuses to use the affected limb (children). Elements of the history of the pain (onset, number of joints and which involved ...
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  • heart will begin to beat around the same time. Limb buds appear where the arms and legs will grow later. Organogenesis begins. The head represents ...
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  • Phantom limb pain is the sensation of pain from a limb that has been lost or from which a person no longer receives physical signals. It is an ...
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  • Phantom Limb - This tactile illusion is the sensation that an amputated body part, most commonly a limb, is still attached to the body. Most ...
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  • then taer [sic] it in pieces, and throw it limb from limb. They have sharp ... or ten steps must have dislocated another limb, for they were loose and broken ...
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  • being and no destruction, for it is whole of limb, without motion, and without end. And it never Was, nor Will be, because it Is now, a Whole all together ...
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  • grade, involving the loss of the victim's limb or some other type of permanent disfigurement of the victim. As successor to the common law crime ...
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  • reporter of his age. He was willing to go out on a limb and challenge the federal government, exposing its secrets to the public as he advocated for change ...
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  • often forms a painful lesion on a lower limb and may exit excruciatingly ... worm forms a blister, usually on the lower limb. The mature worm, now two ...
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  • is due to their highly specialized pelvic limb musculature. Their feet have ... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9768501 Pelvic limb musculature in the emu Dromaius ...
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  • The limb arrangement of members of Plesiosauria is unusual in aquatic animals and it is thought that the limbs were used to propel the animal ...
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  • must be struck out. If he has shattered the limb of a man of rank, let his ... If he has caused a poor man to lose an eye, or has shattered a limb ...
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  • category:Image wanted {{Infobox Non-profit | Non-profit_name = American Friends Service Committee | founded_date = 1917 | founder ...
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  • related to human health and disease, including limb regeneration, and are a source of compounds of medicinal value. They are important in food webs. ...
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  • increase in global warming, loss of the use of a limb for an animal, and so on, would result in destruction. These are curious assertions, however, considering ...
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  • to that of a snake (Everhart 2008). The mosasaur limb bones were reduced in length and their paddles were formed by webbing between their elongated digit ...
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  • anything joined on (Italian lembo or English limb). In common usage, the word “limbo” often refers to a place or state of restraint, confinement or ...
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  • physical remains of a saint (a bone, a hair, a limb, etc.). Traditionally, a martyr's relics are often more prized than the relics of other saints ...
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  • scar, and in the worst cases the affected limb may even have to be amputated. A victim's fate is impossible to predict as this depends on ...
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  • axolotls have been known to repair a damaged limb as well as regenerating an additional one, ending up with an extra appendage that makes them attractive ...
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  • lex talionis. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, limb for limb was the penalty for ... physician, if it led to loss of life or limb, his hands were cut off; a ...
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  • spur found on the male's hind limb is used to deliver venom.]] ... gradually spreads throughout the affected limb. Information obtained from ...
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  • monkeys often will break off live or dead tree limb weighing up to 10 pounds and drop them towards the approaching person. The monkeys do not actually ...
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  • treatment, can lead to the loss of a limb and rarely, death. Thus, a rattlesnake bite is always a potentially serious, or even fatal, injury ...
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  • the far side of the Moon, just behind the eastern limb, is named in his honor. == Notes == == References == * Bodanis, David. 2005. Electric Universe: ...
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  • speed would have been limited by their shortest limb and their size is likely to have precluded them from being bipedal, this suggests that they were ...
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  • children on playgrounds is a fracture of the upper limb resulting from falls from climbing apparatus. D. Fissel, G. Pattison, and A. Howard, “Severity ...
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  • eclipse. Solar prominences can be seen along the limb (in red) as well as extensive coronal filaments.]] The type of solar eclipse event depends ...
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  • actress Shirley MacLaine in her book Out on a Limb. ===Hallucinations=== ... *MacLaine, Shirley. 1986. Out on a Limb. Bantam. ISBN 0553273701 ...
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  • figure in which the position of each feature (limb, mouth, and so on) is defined by animation variables (or Avars). The character "Woody ...
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  • perhaps because of) the risk they pose to life and limb. Cassowaries are very shy, but when disturbed, they are capable of inflicting serious injuries ...
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  • planet appears as a pale blue disc with distinct limb shading, and two of the larger satellites, Titania and Oberon, may be visible. Even in large ...
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  • That brief, nervous, lucid style, stripped of phrases, robust of limb, did not at all recall the softness of the eighteenth century, nor the ...
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  • before the last vestige of its body, root and limb had disappeared, the fragments taken as trophies. Since then the same tree has furnished as many ...
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  • years and debt slaves had protection of life and limb, which regular slaves did not enjoy. However, servants of the debtor could be retained beyond ...
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  • amputees and explain to them that the loss of a limb did not mean an end to a happy and productive life. A U.S. Treasury Bond Certificate that was issued ...
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  • A castrato is a male, artificially produced soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto singer whose voice is artificially changed through castration before ...
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  • several years thereafter, he reportedly visited the limb on the anniversary of the amputation. It has since become the property of the National Museum ...
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  • included psychological support and phantom limb pain management. [https://www.msf.org/controlling-phantom-limb-pain-sierra-leone Controlling ...
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  • though they often serve as a brace and a fifth limb when climbing. There are also confirmed accounts of the tail being used as a grip to carry bunches ...
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  • said, "California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that." ...
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  • Category:Social sciences Category:Health care Category:Social work :This article refers to Medicare, a United States health insurance program ...
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  • to severely injured tissue or in limb reattachment procedures (Longe 2006). Leeches have proven highly effective at preventing venous congestion ...
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  • often the paralysis is asymmetrical. Any limb or combination of limbs may ... disability. Once the muscles in the limb become flaccid, they may interfere ...
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  • :Each limb and each pulse of the body rejoicing, each nerve of the spirit at rest, :All sense of the soul's life rapture, a passionate peace ...
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  • distract the attacker or occupy the threatening limb. (Such a strike will also break the target's concentration, making them easier to throw than ...
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  • toes (four in hippos) and the main limb axis passing between the middle two digits, in contrast to the odd-toed ungulates (order Perissodactyla ...
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  • to cover Jupiter with an object, for example, atree limb or a power line that is perpendicular to the plane of moons' orbits. ...
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  • central vane to hit the wind, composed of three limb bones, the humerus, ulna, and radius. The hand, or manus, which ancestrally is believed to have ...
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  • frostbite), chemical agents, amputation and limb reattachment, being buried ... of varying temperatures, and allowing the limb to freeze (Tsuchiya 2007) ...
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  • possible and decides to act at the risk of life and limb; in some utopias, this may appear as irrational even to him, but he still acts.Beauchamp, 62-63 ...
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  • means of correcting this mistake is to graft a limb of an appropriate pollenizer (generally a variety of crabapple) every six trees or so. ...
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  • A fetus (or foetus, fœtus) is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate, after the embryonic stage and before birth. In humans, the ...
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  • will be restored in the Resurrection: "Every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even a hair of the head shall not be lost; but all ...
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  • the day counseled amputation for almost all serious limb wounds (to prevent death by gangrene), Nelson lost almost his entire right arm, and was unfit ...
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  • said: "As long as a diseased limb is connected with the body, there is hope that it may be saved; but, once amputated, it is gone, and there ...
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  • it may constitute a magical remembering after a limb or digit was lost (as a part of the branding or from failing a trial). Nonetheless, it serves to ...
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  • lights at night and in fog, risking life and limb. Often the shores were littered with bottles from a rum-runner who hit a sandbar or a reef in the ...
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  • trunk to simulate natural scarring from a broken limb or lightning strike. *Curvature. Bonsai that achieve a sense of age while remaining straight ...
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  • of disorders of the foot, ankle, lower limb, hip and lower back. ... of disorders of the foot, ankle, lower limb, hip, and lower back. ...
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  • tarsus generally refers to the distal section of a limb). Furthermore, males have a cluster of spiky hairs (claspers) surrounding the anus and genitals ...
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  • Tiktaalik with limb-like fins that could take it up onto land; Early tetrapods in weed-filled swamps, such as: Acanthostega which had feet with ...
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  • animals such as starfish reproducing from a broken limb, plants reproducing asexually, and some sharks fertilize their own eggs, but their offspring ...
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  • Maternal occupation in agriculture and risk of limb defects in Washington State, 1980-1993. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 26 ...
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  • to be amputated and replaced with an artificial limb in 1958. The operation followed the death of his beloved mother in 1952 and the end of his wife ...
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  • offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of ...
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  • *Three on a Limb (1936) *Grand Slam Opera (1936) *Blue Blazes (1936) *The Chemist (1936) *Mixed Magic (1936) *Jail Bait (1937) *Ditto (1937) ...
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  • be flown (and crashed) without risk of life and limb. Most impressively, miniatures and matte paintings could be used to depict worlds that never existed ...
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  • , literally "branch" or "limb") each of which specialized in learning certain texts. Multiple recensions are known for each ...
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  • senses [i.e., sight, smell, hearing], sound of limb, robust, and, according to some people, endowed with long slim fingers and short nails at her fingertips ...
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  • out to either side (Benton 2004b). Vertical limb configuration also enabled ... the Tyrannosaurus rex specimen's hind limb suggested that T. rex used ...
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  • *Catastrophic injury (paralysis, disfigurement, loss of limb). *Substance abuse. *Adverse environment (sexual abuse, poverty, homelessness, discrimination ...
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  • 2018. and they also exhibit strong stellar limb darkening. That is, the brightness ... harvard.edu/abs/1977A&A....61..809M Limb darkening coefficients for ...
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  • and irregular; large patches may affect a whole limb, and peripheral nerve involvement with weakness and loss of sensation is common. This type is ...
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  • are seen in the mammalian pentadactyl limb, insect mouth parts, and other ... The mammalian pentadactyl limb appears in a remarkable range of variations—from ...
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  • with the main difference in the number of the lower limb of the arch (25-28 in the former, and 21-25 in the later). Finally, the most conspicuous difference ...
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  • device which he used in place of his missing limb. Later that year the three brothers raided the coasts of Andalusia in Spain, capturing a galliot of ...
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  • A short and stocky limb structure makes the jaguar adept at climbing, crawling, and swimming. The head is robust and the jaw extremely powerful ...
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  • Arthur. "Morien, who was dark of face and limb," was said to have saved Sir Gawain on the battlefield.Gerald Massey, A Book of the Beginnings ...
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  • types: type-needs, type-furniture, and human-limb objects. He defined human-limb objects as: "Extensions of our limbs and adapted to human functions ...
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