| duck's-foot | <botany> The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| duck's-meat | <botany> Duckweed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| duck viral enteritis | A viral enteritis of ducks and other waterfowl in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Caused by an anatid herpes virus 1; manifested by weakness, lethargy, and diarrhoea accompanied by catarrhal haemorrhagic enteritis and echymotic haemorrhages in organs and muscles. Synonym: duck viral enteritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| duck viral hepatitis | An acute, highly contagious disease of young ducklings caused by an enterovirus and characterised by lethargy, spasmodic paddling and rapid death. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antalgic gait | A characteristic gait resulting from pain on weightbearing in which the stance phase of gait is shortened on the affected side. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ataxic gait | <neurology> Walking that is clumsy, uncoordinated. (16 Dec 1997) |
| calcaneal gait | A gait disturbance, characterised by walking on heel, due to paralysis of the calf muscles, seen following poliomyelitis and in some other neurologic diseases. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gait | <neurology> Pattern of walking. (16 Dec 1997) |
| gait apraxia | Apraxia for walking, accompanied by inability to make walking movements with the legs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gluteus maximus gait | Compensatory backward propulsion of trunk to maintain centre of gravity over the supporting lower extremity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gluteus medius gait | Compensatory list of body (or throw of trunk) to weak gluteal side, to put centre of gravity over the supporting lower extremity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cerebellar gait | Wide-based gait with lateral veering, unsteadiness, and irregularity of steps; often with a tendency to fall to one or other side, forward or backward. Synonym: ataxic gait. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Charcot's gait | The gait of hereditary ataxia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| circumduction gait | Gait in which the leg is stiff, without flexion at knee and ankle, and with each step is rotated away from the body, then towards it, forming a saemicircle. Synonym: circumduction gait, spastic gait. (05 Mar 2000) |
| waddling gait | Rolling gait in which the weight-bearing hip is not stabilised; it bulges outward with each step, while the opposite side of the pelvis drops, resulting in alternating lateral trunk movements; due to gluteus medius muscle weakness, and seen with muscular dystrophies, among other disorders. Synonym: waddle. (05 Mar 2000) |