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(noun) ?[Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm N.] a cut of meat from the upper part of a hog
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| hamstring |
(noun) either one of the two tendons at the rear hollow of the human knee. the great tendon at the back of the hock of a four-footed animal. (vt) to cut the hamstring of (an animal or a person) and thereby cripple. to destroy or hinder the efficiency of; frustrate, disable.
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| Hamman's sign |
a precordial crunching, clicking, or knocking sound, synchronous with each heart beat, heard on auscultation in such conditions as acute mediastinitis, pneumomediastinum, and pneumothorax. Called also Hamman's murmur.
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| hamartia |
In Aristotle's Poetics, the "tragic flaw" of the protagonist. Scholars differ as to whether Aristotle was referring primarily to a character's ignorance of certain facts or to a character's moral defect.
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| hamstring |
Muscles located at the back of the thigh that bend the knee and swing the leg backward from the hip.
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