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    especially if a cord or rope, is called a girdle in various contexts, especially historical ones, where girdles were a very common part of everyday clothing...
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    viruses can girdle a trunk or limb. Animals such as rodents will girdle trees by feeding on outer bark, often during winter under snow. Girdling can also...
    12 KB (1,459 words) - 07:15, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy
    Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) is a genetically heterogeneous group of rare muscular dystrophies that share a set of clinical characteristics. It...
    35 KB (2,787 words) - 20:03, 11 April 2024
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    the same girdle thickness at all 16 "thick parts". So-called "cheated" girdles have thicker girdles where the main facets touch the girdle than where...
    48 KB (6,751 words) - 10:31, 3 May 2024
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    The Girdle of Thomas, Virgin's Girdle, Holy Belt, or Sacra Cintola in modern Italian, is a Christian relic in the form of a "girdle" or knotted textile...
    17 KB (2,257 words) - 21:23, 12 December 2023
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    easier choice is the girdle, which promises what Gawain most desires. Faith in God, alternatively, requires one's acceptance that what one most desires does...
    100 KB (12,617 words) - 12:25, 21 April 2024
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    Iliad and elsewhere meaning "war belt". Some English translations prefer "girdle". Hippolyta figures prominently in the myths of both Heracles and Theseus...
    12 KB (1,245 words) - 01:42, 18 April 2024
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    the same girdle thickness at all 16 "thick parts". So-called "cheated" girdles have thicker girdles where the main facets touch the girdle than where...
    11 KB (1,453 words) - 10:51, 3 May 2024
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    Pelvis (redirect from Human pelvic girdle)
    region of the trunk. It is subdivided into the pelvic girdle and the pelvic spine. The pelvic girdle is composed of the appendicular hip bones (ilium, ischium...
    47 KB (5,802 words) - 14:03, 19 May 2024
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    skirt known as a girdle. Chitons live worldwide, from cold waters through to the tropics. They live on hard surfaces, such as on or under rocks, or in rock...
    49 KB (4,821 words) - 17:41, 13 May 2024
  • protective green girdle, which she claims to have made herself. In exchange for the girdle, Gawain allows her to masturbate him but stains the girdle in the process...
    48 KB (4,312 words) - 18:50, 22 May 2024
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    Greek had a verb (Greek: ζώννυσθαι, zōnnysthai) put a girdle around the loins, or "gird one's self." In modern Greek and Church Slavonic the zone or...
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    reduced. The legs are attached to a strong assembly consisting of the pelvic girdle extensively fused with the uniform spinal bone (also specific to birds)...
    26 KB (2,611 words) - 23:20, 23 April 2024
  • Pelvic girdle pain (abbreviated PGP) can be described as a pregnancy discomfort for some women and a severe disability for others. PGP can cause pain,...
    22 KB (2,908 words) - 05:55, 18 April 2024
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    Although limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) involve fixed muscle weakness, LGMDR8 also involves muscle fatigue; as do some limb-girdle muscular...
    58 KB (5,998 words) - 00:49, 28 April 2024
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    The Girdler sulfide (GS) process, also known as the Geib–Spevack (GS) process, is an industrial production method for filtering out of natural water the...
    7 KB (870 words) - 21:56, 7 March 2024
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    Underwear (redirect from Under garments)
    wrapped around the hips several times and then fastened with a girdle. Men are said to have worn loincloths in ancient Greece and Rome, though it is unclear...
    63 KB (6,456 words) - 01:34, 24 May 2024
  • is attached to the axial skeleton, is formed by the shoulder girdle, the pelvic girdle and the bones of the upper and lower limbs. The human skeleton...
    21 KB (2,502 words) - 13:26, 17 May 2024
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    Ring of Fire (redirect from Girdle of Fire)
    Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and...
    94 KB (9,603 words) - 22:44, 17 April 2024
  • dress could be belted or girdled, with tools and personal items suspended from the belt. Women in this period may or may not have worn a head covering. Fleeces...
    47 KB (6,547 words) - 22:23, 20 April 2024
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