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- noun Plural form of
clubfoot .
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Examples
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Area of expertise: Foot and ankle, hip, clubfeet, limb length discrepancy, angular deformity
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"In Australia, children born with cleft lips, cleft palates and clubfeet are treated at a very early age," Senator Patterson said.
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We srnile at children, several of whom have cleft palates or clubfeet, and 1 wonder if this is the result of inbreeding.
the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995
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To mention only some of the more respectable novelists who have been translated in English, Junichiro Tanizaki, Osamu Dazai, Shohei Ooka, and Yukio Mishima (whose Temple of the Golden Pavilion has a character who tramples on the belly of a pregnant prostitute and another who rapes a sixty-year-old widow while she is worshipping his clubfeet) — these are sufficient to indicate that where extreme situations in fiction are concerned Oë is no great pioneer.
Days of Marvelous Lays Enright, D.J. 1968
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Several mummies revealed instances of cleft palate, clubfeet, flat feet and bone degeneration.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD 2010
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Several mummies revealed instances of cleft palate, clubfeet, flat feet and bone degeneration.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD 2010
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"Our findings are significant in that they were present in 6 percent of familial clubfoot cases tested and were associated with clubfeet that were rigid and prone to a difficult treatment course," Dobbs says.
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Several mummies revealed instances of cleft palate, clubfeet, flat feet and bone degeneration.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD 2010
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"Our findings are significant in that they were present in 6 percent of familial clubfoot cases tested and were associated with clubfeet that were rigid and prone to a difficult treatment course," Dobbs says.
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"Our findings are significant in that they were present in 6 percent of familial clubfoot cases tested and were associated with clubfeet that were rigid and prone to a difficult treatment course," Dobbs says.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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