| legal medicine | The application of medical knowledge to questions of law. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Legal's test | A test for acetone; the urine is rendered alkaline by a few drops of a solution of potassium hydroxide, and to this are added 2 or 3 drops of a freshly prepared 10% solution of sodium nitroprusside; it is coloured red, then yellow; then a few drops of acetic acid are trickled down the side of the test tube and at the line of junction of the two fluids is formed a carmine or purple ring. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Legal, Emmo | <person> German physician, 1859-1922. See: Legal's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| legalist | One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| legalize | 1. To make legal. 2. To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. Origin: Cf. F. Legaliser. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| legation | 1. The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another. "The Divine legation of Moses." 2. A legate, or envoy, and the persons associated with him in his mission; an embassy; or, in stricter usage, a diplomatic minister and his suite; a deputation. 3. The place of business or official residence of a diplomatic minister at a foreign court or seat of government. 4. A district under the jurisdiction of a legate. Origin: L. Legatio: cf. F. Legation, It. Legazione. See Legate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Legendre's sign | <clinical sign> In facial hemiplegia of central origin, when the examiner raises the lids of the actively closed eyes the resistance is less on the affected side. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Legendre, Gaston | <person> French physician, *1887. See: Legendre's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Legg, Arthur | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1874-1939. See: Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Legg-Calve-Perthes disease | <orthopaedics> A disorder characterised by the deterioration of the head of the femur in the hip joint, due to its insufficient blood supply. This disorder occurs most frequently in boys aged 5 to 10 years and tends to run in families. Symptoms include thigh pain, hip pain, knee pain, atrophy of muscles in the thigh, hip stiffness and walking with a limp. (13 Nov 1997) |
| Legg-Perthes disease | <orthopaedics> A disorder characterised by the deterioration of the head of the femur in the hip joint, due to its insufficient blood supply. This disorder occurs most frequently in boys aged 5 to 10 years and tends to run in families. Symptoms include thigh pain, hip pain, knee pain, atrophy of muscles in the thigh, hip stiffness and walking with a limp. (13 Nov 1997) |
| leghaemoglobin | <plant biology> Form of haemoglobin found in the nitrogen fixing root nodules of legumes. Binds oxygen and thus protects the nitrogen fixing enzyme, nitrogenase, that is oxygen sensitive. (18 Nov 1997) |
| leghemoglobin | A haemoglobin-like oxygen-binding haemprotein present in the nitrogen-fixing root nodules of leguminous plants. The red pigment has a molecular weight approximately 1/4 that of haemoglobin and has been suggested to act as an oxido-reduction catalyst in symbiotic nitrogen fixation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| legionaire's disease | A disease (first identified at the 1976 american legion convention) due to bacteria (legionella) found in plumbing, shower heads and water-storage tanks. Outbreaks of legionella pneumonia have been attributed to evaporative condensors and cooling towers. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Legionella | <bacteria> Genus of gram-negative asporogenous bacteria. most species are pathogenic in humans, causing pneumonia like disease, for example Legionnaire's disease, named after an outbreak in Philadelphia amongst members of an American Legion reunion. (27 Sep 1997) |
| interosseous membrane of leg | The dense fibrous layer that connects the interosseous margins of the tibia and fibula, forming the upper portion of the tibiofibular syndesmosis and, with the bones and intermuscular septa, creating anterior and posterior comparments of the leg. Synonym: membrana interossea cruris, ligamentum tibiofibulare medium. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| interosseous nerve of leg | <anatomy, nerve> A nerve given off from one of the muscular branches of the tibial nerve which passes down over the posterior surface of the interosseous membrane supplying it and the two bones of the leg. Synonym: nervus interosseus cruris, interosseous nerve of leg. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tennis leg | A rupture of the gastrocnemius muscle at the musculotendinous junction, resulting from forcible contractions of the calf muscles; commonly seen in tennis players. (05 Mar 2000) |
| elephant leg | <medicine> A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide. Origin: L, fr. Gr, from, an elephant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| transverse ligament of leg | The ligament that binds down the extensor tendons proximal to the ankle joint; it is continuous with (a thickening of) the deep fascia of the leg. Synonym: retinaculum musculorum extensorum superius, ligamentum transversum cruris, superior retinaculum of extensor muscles, transverse crural ligament, transverse ligament of leg. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fascia of leg | Fascia of the leg; it is continuous with the fascia lata and is attached proximally to the patella, ligamentum patellae, the tubercle and condyles of the tibia, and the head of the fibula; distally it is thickened to form the flexor and extensor retinacula. Synonym: fascia cruris, deep fascia of leg, fascia of leg. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lateral surface of leg | The lateral surface of the part of the inferior limb between the knee and the ankle. Synonym: facies lateralis cruris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frog-leg lateral projection | A lateral projection of the femoral neck made with the thigh maximally abducted. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lip and leg ulceration | An infectious disease of sheep characterised by crusted ulcers on the skin of the face, feet, and external genitalia; thought to be caused by the orf virus. Synonym: lip and leg ulceration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| long-leg arthropathy | A degenerative joint disease that develops, after many years, in the knee of the longer leg of a person with unequal leg lengths. (05 Mar 2000) |