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  • Maximize the limb's strength, range of motion and function

    Leg-length discrepancies, limb deformities 2010

  • He's just erecting it, almost like a shop sign, as a symbol of what an artist's hand might do, but without much commitment to his own 78-year-old limb's ability to do it.

    Gopnik's Daily Pic: Picasso's "Arm" - again Blake Gopnik 2010

  • She watched her limb's antics with interest, vaguely comforted by the sensation which was now almost self-induced of being detached from her unruly body.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • I did not sleep last night and the exhaustion has magnified my limb's recalcitrance.

    Here Comes The Son 2005

  • I did not sleep last night and the exhaustion has magnified my limb's recalcitrance.

    Archive 2005-05-15 2005

  • Since the limb was dead and had been for some time, it was reasonable to assume that the limb's fall was caused by nature.

    Tanner Ties Moreland, Peggy 2005

  • The kitten burrowed herself into the complicated three-way juncture between the limb's extremities and broke into a loud purr.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2003

  • She seemed suspicious of the device and held it at limb's length.

    Chainer's Torment Mcgough, Scott 2002

  • She seemed suspicious of the device and held it at limb's length.

    Chainer's Torment McGough, Scott 2002

  • Neurophysiology has confirmed Weir Mitchell's hypothesis that the entire sensory-ideational-motor unit is activated in phantom motions; and engineers are developing highly sophisticated artificial limbs, with delicate "muscles," amplification of nerve impulses, servo-mechanisms, etc., which can be married to the still intact portion of the limb's innervation, and allow phantom motions to be turned into real ones.

    Phantom Limbs Otten, Erna 1992

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