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Definition of Limbs
1. limb [v] - See also: limb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limbs
Literary usage of Limbs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"ARTIFICIAL limbs. The fitting of artificial limbs for disabled men in Canadian
... Fitting only is done at Winnipeg, the set-ups or rough limbs being made, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1864)
"Inequality in the Length of the limbs.—Inequality in the development of the limbs,
arising from certain occupations, has hitherto been most generally ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"-Qg . Kerr on the Paired limbs of Vertebrates In the Proceedings of the Cambridge
Philosophical Society, Mr. Kerr discusses the question of the origin of ..."
4. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1891)
"B. The limbs. The limbs of the Insecta consist of single rows of joints.
We distinguish the limbs of the head from those of the trunk. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"A glance at the skeletons of mammals shows how unlike are the forms of the
corresponding bones of their limbs ; and shows that they have been severally ..."
6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"Power was never regained in the paralyzed limbs, and the swelling, to be later
described, came on gradually several weeks after the onset of his attack. ..."
7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"... there is a juncture or union between two limbs or sides of said vein, and from
the summit of said juncture or union the downward course of one limb or ..."
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