right leg
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrightandleg
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right
adjective
uk/raɪt/us/raɪt/
correct:
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leg
noun[C]
uk/leɡ/us/leɡ/
one of the parts of the body of a human or animal that is used for standing ...
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(Definition ofrightandlegfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Fore-femoral lengths were measured and forefemoral scales on therightlegof each specimen counted.
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The figure has a witheredrightlegand dropped foot, which are typical of poliomyelitis (fig001pmn).
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In fact, a human-like motion requires that right arm moves forward whilerightlegmoves backward and similarly for the other leg and arm.
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The drawing shows how therightlegof the walker is freed from the sidewalk, and then it is tied down to a new position.
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He is a delicate balance between reverence and impertinence, the horizontal of his extendedrightleg playing off of the forceful vertical of his raised right arm.
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These criteria correspond to the minimization of differences between the vertical forces applied to trunk respectively by therightlegand arm and the leg and arm.
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Once, trying to throw off a snake that had dug its teeth into her, she threw herself into an open fire and burned herrightleg.
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Here is the case of a man who lost hisrightlegbelow the knee.
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It was therightlegin which the injury took place.
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He wears a caliper on hisrightlegand needs a surgical belt.
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One soldier was hit, receiving a flesh wound in hisrightleg.
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We have learned that to wear it around therightlegis a superstition.
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Fortunately, the machine stopped but herrightlegwas seriously damaged and remains disfigured.
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Rather, she begins the story of her illness by describing an episode of pain in herrightlegthat made walking difficult, and left her unable to care for herself.
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The injuries he sustained were a slight wound of the scalp and contusions of therightleg.
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The death of the child was certified as due to (1) small-pox (2) cellulitis ofrightleg.
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The shell blew a hole in hisrightleg, as well as causing injuries to his back and arm.
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The teacher, meanwhile, carried on and perpetrated a follow-through with such velocity that he struck hisrightleg.
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He used a calliper to therightlegfor some considerable time and had to give it up.
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My noble kinsman, who has a deep vein thrombosis in hisrightleg, had great problems on a recent flight.
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She was born without herrightleg.
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