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Plethysmograph :: Plethysmograph (n.) An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb..

Rickets :: Rickets (n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis..

Naked :: Naked (a.) Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword..

Cappeline :: Cappeline (n.) A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb..

Monoplegia :: Monoplegia (n.) Paralysis affecting a single limb.

Twining :: Twining (a.) The act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally..

Cripple :: Cripple (v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait..

Nicker Nut :: Nicker nut () A rounded seed, rather smaller than a nutmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or bluish color. The seeds grow in the prickly pods of tropical, woody climbers of the genus Caesalpinia. C. Bonduc has yellowish seeds; C. Bonducella, bluish gray..

Overclimb :: Overclimb (v. t.) To climb over.

Feel :: Feel (v. t.) To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs..

Femur :: Femur (n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.

Superior :: Superior (a.) More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image..

Farcy :: Farcy (n.) A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen..

Limber :: Limber (a.) Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding.

Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving..

Bilimbi :: Bilimbi (n.) Alt. of Bilimbin.

Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints..

Application :: Application (n.) The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb..

Couped :: Couped (a.) Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased..

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