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The human leg is the entire lower extremity or limb of the human body, including the foot, thigh and even the hip or gluteal region ; however, the precise definition in human anatomy refers only to the section of the lower limb extending from the knee to the ankle.
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A cross-section of a normal lower human leg is shown in Fig. 8 with the various parts labeled.
In human anatomical terms, the leg is the part of the lower extremity that lies between the knee and the ankle, the thigh is between the hip and knee and the term " lower extremity " is used to describe the colloquial leg.
The human adaption to bipedalism is not limited to the leg, however, but has also affected the location of the body's center of gravity, the reorganisation of internal organs, and the form and biomechanism of the trunk.
The human legs are exceptionally long and powerful as a result of their exclusive specialization to support and locomotion — in orangutans the leg length is 111 % of the trunk ; in chimpanzees 128 %, and in humans 171 %.
The major ( long ) bones of the human leg are the femur ( thighbone ), tibia ( shinbone ), and fibula ( the smaller, rear calf bone ).
The film was groundbreaking for not glorifying the war or its human costs, exemplified by the lead character's loss of a leg from battle wounds.
Guidelines issued by Guinness World Records in March 2007 state that a human powered circumnavigation must travel a minimum of 36, 787. 559 km ( the distance of the Tropic of Cancer ), cross the Equator, and each leg must commence at the exact point where the last finished off.
His name, understood as ' One-Leg ', suggests god K of Postclassic and Classic Maya iconography, a deity of lightning with one human leg, and one leg shaped like a serpent.
After taking the shot, the sniper's leg falls through the ceiling tiles and the outraged John pulls him out of the air shaft and beats him up before using the bound SWAT policeman as a human shield as he steps outside to the sight of dozens of policemen pointing weapons at him as well as a large crowd gathered to support his cause.
It is the longest and widest single nerve in the human body going from the top of the leg to the foot on the posterior aspect.
On the human body, the limbs can be divided into segments, such as the arm and the forearm of the upper limb, and the thigh and the leg of the lower limb.
In human anatomy, the peroneus longus ( also known as fibularis longus ) is a superficial muscle in the lateral compartment of the leg, and acts to evert and plantar flex the ankle.
* ReMoto, a web-based simulator of the spinal cord and innervated muscles of the human leg.
This style of control is generally used in the USA for human figures and is also known as the American control, A similar control is almost universally used for quadruped animals as it emulates the basic shape of the animal, rocking it from side to side will control the leg movements in unison when strung correctly.
As she drives off screaming, she see people being shot at, a human leg hanging out of a wheelie bin, an explosion, a car trying to run over a man and so on as she tries to get as far away as possible from this evil area.
Claire's physical artificiality ( as evidenced by her prosthetic leg and her ivory hand ) reinforces the idea that Claire is " unkillable "; not quite human.
A human leg three days after coming in brief contact with a fire ant colony
When they are human again, Cap ' n Bill retrieves the flower by strapping a wood plank onto his good leg, walks with that and his wooden leg onto the island, and retrieves the flower.
Instead, he recounts a story of human brutality, being adrift on a lifeboat with his mother, a sailor with a broken leg, and the ship's cook, who killed the sailor and Pi's mother and cut them up to use as bait and food.
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It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.
As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.
But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
Individual human strength is needed to pit against an inhuman condition.
What is simply an opinion formed in defiance of the laws of human probability, whether or not it is later confirmed, has become by September of the election year `` a firm conviction ''.
Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.
As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.
This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.
It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.
He is a utopian with a stake in tomorrow and he is a vulnerable human made captive by the circumstances of today.
There is another kind of ardor, a quiet, sure devotion to the fundamental decencies of human life, but no angry utopian contentions.
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With destructive tensions and pressures removed men have the vigor and energy to construct a new human life -- rebuilding entire cities, expanding facilities for entertainment, providing unlimited opportunities for education -- indeed, for the first time giving everyone the chance to employ his talents to the fullest.
The entire group of managers explained, in great detail, a number of human relations errors that he made.
And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin, having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race ; ;
Islam teaches that the purpose of Man's entire creation is to worship the Creator of the Heavens and Earth-Allah ( God in Arabic ) alone that includes being kind to other human beings and life including bugs, and to trees, by not oppressing them.
Today the entire human race is faced with a similar test.
Unlike some non-mammalian animals ( such as lizards that shed their tails, salamanders that can regrow many missing body parts, and hydras, flatworms, and starfish that can regrow entire bodies from small fragments ), once removed, human extremities do not grow back, unlike portions of some organs, such as the liver.
He is approached by a woman who explains she is Sarah Tyrell, niece of Eldon Tyrell, heiress to the entire Tyrell Corporation and the human template ( templant ) for the Rachael replicant.
The Human Genome Project is an initiative of the U. S. Department of Energy (" DOE ") and the National Institutes of Health (" NIH ") that aims to generate a high-quality reference sequence for the entire human genome and identify all the human genes.
Others reject this view, as they hold that the context of the entire set of Biblical laws includes those laws that restrict them to already born human beings.
The goal of the company was to sequence the entire human genome and release it into the public domain for non-commercial use in much less time and for much less cost than the public human genome project.
The extinction of the Dodo within only about a century of its discovery called attention to the previously unrecognised problem of human involvement in the disappearance of entire species.
At the end of the story, the self-destruct mechanism of Davros ' life-support chair explodes, destroying an entire human colony.
Furthermore it is believed that the Eritrean section of the Danakil Depression was a major player in terms of human evolution and may " document the entire evolution of Homo erectus up to the transition to anatomically modern humans.
By comparing the parts of the genome that are not under natural selection and which therefore accumulate mutations at a fairly steady rate, it is possible to reconstruct a genetic tree incorporating the entire human species since the last shared ancestor.
Starting with the Aesopian pattern, La Fontaine set out to satirize the court, the church, the rising bourgeoisie, indeed the entire human scene of his time.
The exact size of the GPCR superfamily is unknown but nearly 800 different human genes ( or ≈ 4 % of the entire protein-coding genome ) have been predicted from genome sequence analysis.
Afterward, he regains his entire ice form, but cannot change back to his human appearance.
One of her shortest stories, " Ain " is a sympathetic portrait of a scientist whose concern for Earth's ecological suffering leads him to destroy the entire human race.
Hence, the uniqueness and universality of Christ the Savior are ‘ constitutive .’ As the son of God incarnate, Jesus is the center of history and the key to the entire procession of salvation, and his resurrection confers universal significance on his human existence.
In photography, filmmaking and video production, a long shot ( sometimes referred to as a full shot or a wide shot ) typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings.
The entire population of Home is secretly destroyed as a consequence of Brennan's and Truesdale's war with the Pak — Brennan turns the entire population into human Protectors to create an army to fight the Pak invaders.
Many times, Luthor has stated that he could have aided the entire human race if not for Superman's interference, claiming that he gives humanity a goal that they could realistically strive to duplicate, while Superman makes them reach for the impossible.
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