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Run :: Run (a.) Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body..

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

Cocculus Indicus :: Cocculus Indicus (n.) The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant..

Plethysmography :: Plethysmography (n.) The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply..

Tare :: Tare (n.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder..

Thewed :: Thewed (a.) Furnished with thews or muscles; as, a well-thewed limb..

Garrot :: Garrot (n.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb..

Lithesome :: Lithesome (a.) Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.

Mesopodial :: Mesopodial (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesopodialia or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.

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..

Marsipobranchia :: Marsipobranchia (n. pl.) A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii..

Function :: Function (n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body..

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

Adductor :: Adductor (n.) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose..

Haemapodous :: Haemapodous (a.) Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the ventral or hemal side, as in vertebrates; -- opposed to neuropodous..

Extension :: Extension (v. t.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion..

Humerus :: Humerus (n.) The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb..

Gesticulation :: Gesticulation (n.) A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments..

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

Purpura :: Purpura (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples..

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