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| Domain | Definition |
Health | The physical state of supporting an applied load. This often refers to the weight-bearing bones or joints that support the body's weight, especially those in the spine, hip, knee, and foot. (references) |
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Crosswords: WEIGHT-BEARING |
| Specialty definitions using "WEIGHT-BEARING": Osteoarthritis, Hip. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Osteoporosis—A diet rich in calcium and vitamin D and weight-bearing exercise will help keep your bones healthy. (references) | |
When this occurs in weight-bearing bones, such as the femur (upper leg bone), limping, deformity, and fractures may occur. (references) | ||
Aim for 30 minutes of weight-bearing exercises like walking, jogging, or weight lifting 3 days a week or more. Third, taking estrogen or one of several other drugs available will also prevent further loss of bone. Drugs approved for osteoporosis by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) include raloxifene, alendronate, and calcitonin. (references) | ||
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Ann Richards | That's a consequence of those little hairline fractures. But weight-bearing exercise can build bone, build strength and that's what I do. I was in a gym this morning. |
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| Language | Translations for "WEIGHT-BEARING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | tragend (basic, bearing, buoyant, buoyantly, carrying, fundamental, leading, load-bearing, main, major, pregnant, resonant, shouldering, sustaining). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eight-bearingway | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-g-g-h-i-i-n-r-t-w" | |
-3 letters: reweighing, weathering. | |
-4 letters: breathing, gathering, hibernate, inbreathe, inebriate, inhabiter, nightwear, rebaiting, reheating, reinhabit, weightier, weighting, withering, wreathing. | |
-5 letters: agreeing, airthing, berating, berthing, bewaring, bighting, birthing, bitewing, brighten, earthing, girthing, gratinee, greeting, habiting, hearting, heritage, herniate, inertiae, ingather, interage, rebating, reignite, righting, tabering, thebaine, thrawing, triaging, twangier, twiggier, wagering, watering, weighing, weighter, whitener, wrathing. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Quotations: Spoken | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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