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Congenital amputation. Congenital amputation is birth without a limb or limbs, or without a part of a limb or limbs. It is known to be caused by blood clots forming in the fetus while in utero (vascular insult) and from amniotic band syndrome: fibrous bands of the amnion that constrict fetal limbs to such an extent that they fail to form or ...
Website. nickvujicic.com. Nicholas James Vujicic ( / ˈvuːɪtʃɪtʃ / VOO-itch-itch; [ 1] born 4 December 1982) [ 2][ 3] is an Australian-American [ 4] Christian evangelist and motivational speaker of Serbian descent. Vujicic has tetra-amelia syndrome, a disorder characterised by the absence of arms and legs. [ 5]
An ordinary embowed has the edges bowed inwards producing a concavity; this is sometimes more explicitly blazoned inwardly embowed. Its opposite is enarched . This variation is most often applied to the chevron and pile . The term embowed is also applied to bent arms and legs, arched fish, and serpents in circles.
Jackson told the New York Times that “the dressing bulked up a bit because you need a bit of absorbent. You don’t want to be walking around with bloody gauze on his ear.”. Donald Trump ...
Einthoven's triangle. Einthoven's triangle is an imaginary formation of three limb leads in a triangle used in the electrocardiography, formed by the two shoulders and the pubis. [1] The shape forms an inverted equilateral triangle with the heart at the center. It is named after Willem Einthoven, who theorized its existence.
Athetosis is a symptom characterized by slow, involuntary, convoluted, writhing movements of the fingers, hands, toes, and feet and in some cases, arms, legs, neck and tongue. [1] Movements typical of athetosis are sometimes called athetoid movements. Lesions to the brain are most often the direct cause of the symptoms, particularly to the ...
Limb (anatomy) A limb (from Old English lim, meaning "body part") is a jointed, muscled appendage of a tetrapod vertebrate animal used for weight-bearing, terrestrial locomotion and physical interaction with other objects. The distalmost portion of a limb is known as its extremity. The limbs' bony endoskeleton, known as the appendicular ...
Legs Diamond is an American rock band formed in 1975. [1] They formed in Los Angeles, California , with original members Michael "Diamond" Gargano (bass), Jeff Poole (drums), Roger Romeo (guitar), Rick Sanford (vocals) and Michael Prince (keyboards and guitar) and were named for a 1920s gangster of the same name .