Search results for "Limb" - New World Encyclopedia

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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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