locomotion

• Walking behavior and pattern of locomotion were analyzed on the basis of footprint recordings in a total of 18 animals from 2 age groups. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• There is, in some subjects, only a slight impediment in locomotion which is occasioned by inability to properly extend the digit. —  Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
• A whole psychological period apparently lay between that conclusion and--a broom-handle walking-stick; but the broomstick came, as it was bound to come,--thank heaven!--from that premise, and what with stretching one limb to make it longer, and doubling up the other to make it shorter, she invented that form of locomotion which is still carrying her through life, and with no more exaggerated leg-crookedness than many careless negroes born with straight limbs display. —  Balcony Stories
• The lift tackle is performed by seizing the opponent around the legs below the hips, bringing his knees together so that further locomotion is an impossibility to him, and lifting him upward off the ground and depositing him as far backward toward his own goal as circumstances and ability will permit. —  The Half-Back
• Chatterjee S, Templin RJ (2004) Posture, locomotion, and paleoecology of pterosaurs. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

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