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limb | American Dictionary

limb
noun[ C ]
us/lɪm/

limbnoun[C] (ARM OR LEG)

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an arm or leg of a person or animal, or an animal’s wing

limbnoun[C] (BRANCH)

a large branch of a tree

Examples of limb

limb
The sun falls on his mustache and on his crispy hair, on the black of his polished and perfect limbs.
Positive and negative forms can be combined to form limbs.
Moderate-to-severe sensory deficits are present in the distal parts of all four limbs, although vibratory sensation is more affected than touch and pain sensation.
Rather, adult features (such as pectoral muscles) are combined with infant traits (flabby limbs, facial expression, and posture) that often appear vestigial.
Among the consequences of accidents sustained in such homes, one carer cited a broken hip and two others cited broken limbs.
Once the examiner positioned the limbs into one particular position, they remained in that position without showing even the slightest change.
The limbs evolved in the first instance for locomotion, and linear movement is best ensured with a bilaterally symmetrical system.
On a priori grounds, one might expect the limbs to be organized symmetrically.
The human bodily limbs were also set as small-scale determinants in measuring clothing, furniture, and decorative features.
Moreover, the back limbs of such folds may become detached along major thrust faults to produce nappes.
The book concentrates on embryos, limbs and eyes.
Minor degrees of shortening of the limbs and abnormalities in stature may be missed unless looked for carefully.
Neanderthals, for example, who died out about 40,000 years ago, had shorter limbs and larger trunks than humans alive today.
Their later study14 used a battery of computerized tracking tasks to quantify impairment and recovery of the sensory-motor function of both limbs.
The fundamental aspect of their approach is the adaptation of human walking data to prescribe the motion of the lower limbs.
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Collocations withlimb

limb

These are words often used in combination with limb.

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affected limb
Conversely, some patients with plexus avulsions report pain reduction with sensory input to the affectedlimb.
artificial limb
One day it could help to restore vision, reconnect nerves or control an artificiallimb.
broken limb
Our whole trade structure will be dislocated or like a brokenlimb.
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