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Rickets :: Rickets (n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis..

Betel :: Betel (n.) A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves..

Twining :: Twining (a.) The act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally..

Limb :: Limb (n.) An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal..

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs..

Digit :: Digit (n.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.

Pliant :: Pliant (v.) Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart..

Propodial :: Propodial (a.) Of or pertaining to the propodialia, or the parts of the limbs to which they belong..

Lygodium :: Lygodium (n.) A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs..

Gesture :: Gesture (n.) A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce or emphasize an argument, assertion, or opinion..

Nicker Nut :: Nicker nut () A rounded seed, rather smaller than a nutmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or bluish color. The seeds grow in the prickly pods of tropical, woody climbers of the genus Caesalpinia. C. Bonduc has yellowish seeds; C. Bonducella, bluish gray..

Reach :: Reach (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like..

Upclimb :: Upclimb (v. t. & i.) To climb up; to ascend.

Limbec :: Limbec (v. t.) To distill.

Crampon :: Crampon (n.) An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy..

Femur :: Femur (n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.

Abduction :: Abduction (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body..

Climbed :: Climbed (imp. & p. p.) of Clim.

Blimbi :: Blimbi (n.) Alt. of Blimbin.

Swerve :: Swerve (v. i.) To climb or move upward by winding or turning.

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