short limb

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• short limb of incus — crus breve incudis …   Medical dictionary

• Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy — Classification and external resources ICD 10 G71.0 ICD 9 359.1 …   Wikipedia

• Limb darkening — refers to the diminishing of intensity in the image of a star as one moves from the center of the image to the edge or limb of the image. Limb darkening occurs as the result of two effects:* The density of the star diminishes as the distance from …   Wikipedia

• limb — 1. An extremity; a member; an arm or leg. SYN: member. 2. A segment of any jointed structure. SEE ALSO: leg, crus. [A.S. lim] ampullary membranous limbs of semicircular ducts [TA] the dilated ends of the three semicircular ducts, each of which… …   Medical dictionary

• limb — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ long ▪ short ▪ slender, thin ▪ flailing ▪ Two arms reached around her flailing limbs …   Collocations dictionary

• limb lengthening — an orthopaedic procedure for increasing the length of a limb (usually the leg). An external fixator is attached to the bone. This can be a circular frame surrounding the bone, which was invented by the Russian surgeon Ilizarov, or a bar down one… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• short — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} adj. 1 not measuring much from one end to the other VERBS ▪ be, look, seem ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc …   Collocations dictionary

• short arm — n the penis. A euphemism heard espe cially in the armed services; short arm is an archaic variation of small arm in the sense of a handgun. Arm also reflects the common notion of the penis as a limb. Short arm inspection was the medical… …   Contemporary slang

• short leg brace — popular term for an orthosis of the lower limb that does not have a knee component, such as an ankle foot orthosis …   Medical dictionary

• Phantom limb — For other uses, see Phantom limb (disambiguation). Phantom limb Classification and external resources ICD 10 G54.6 G54.7 ICD …   Wikipedia

• Out on a Limb — may refer to: Out on a Limb (book), an autobiography by Shirley MacLaine Shirley MacLaine Out on a Limb (film), a 1992 American comedy Out on a Limb (Arrested Development), an episode of Arrested Development Out on a Limb Records, an Irish… …   Wikipedia