| posture | The position of the limbs or the carriage of the body as a whole. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| posture sense | The ability to recognise the position in which a limb is passively placed, with the eyes closed. Synonym: position sense. (05 Mar 2000) |
| clavicle strap | <orthopaedics> Also called a figure of 8 strap. This orthopaedic device is worn something like a back pack an allows improved healing of a fractured clavicle (improves the alignment of the fractured ends). (27 Sep 1997) |
| safety strap | <dentistry> A plastic strap which prevents a face-bow from coming loose and hurting you. (08 Jan 1998) |
| sandal strap dermatitis | Allergic contact on the dorsal surfaces of the feet, caused by synthetic rubber sandal straps or additives to natural rubber. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strap | 1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging. "A lively cobbler that . . . Had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap." (Addison) 2. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap. 3. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop. 4. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass. <machinery> Specifically: A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine. A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything. 5. <botany> The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy. The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses. 6. A shoulder strap. See Shoulder. Strap bolt, a bolt of which one end is a flat bar of considerable length. Strap head, a flat rail formerly used. Origin: OE. Strope, AS. Stropp, L. Stroppus, struppus, perhaps fr. Gr. A band or cord, fr. To twist, to turn (cf. Strophe). Cf. Strop a strap, a piece of rope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| strap cell | An elongated tumour cell of uniform width that may show cross-striations; found in rhabdomyosarcoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strap muscles | The small, flat muscles inferior to the hyoid bone including the sternohyoid, omohyoid, sternothyroid, thyrohyoid, and levator muscle of the thyroid gland. Synonym: musculi infrahyoidei, strap muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |