full weight-bearing

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full weight-bearing (FWB)

Etymology: AS, fol + gewiht + ME, beren

relating to a view in radiology that shows the response to stresses of a natural posture. Full weight-bearing views of the foot are useful in studying flatfoot and clawfoot.

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cup arthroplasty of the hip joint definitive prosthesis FWB			While other researchers have elicited similar leg movements in people with complete spinal injuries, they have not achieved full weight-bearing and sustained stepping as we have in our study," he added. Novel treatment helps paralysed rats walk again after spinal-cord ... by Asian News International We can optimise the use of the circuitry in the spinal cord to the point where the animals can sustain full weight-bearing locomotion," said Courtine. Scientists make paralysed rats run again by AFP / AFP Global Edition She could not ambulate with full weight-bearing because of the pain in her right knee. Radiological case of the month: Ibrahim Firky Abdelwahab, MD; Michael ... by Abdelwahab, Ibrahim Firky; Klein, Michael J.; Hermann, George; Abdul-Quader, Mohammed / Applied Radiology			Fulani fulcrum fulcrum line fulcrum test fulcrum, extraoral fulcrum, intraoral fulfillment fulgurant fulgurate fulgurating fulguration full axillary dissection full bath full bloom Full Court Press full denture Full House Pattern Full House Syndrome Full Moon full mouth full pulse full range of motion full term full text reports full wave rectification full weight-bearing full-arch wire full-body CT scan full-feed full-liquid diet full-lung tomography full-risk HMO full-service laboratory full-sib full-thickness flap full-thickness graft full-width half maximum fuller's earth fullered fullering fulminant fulminant hepatic failure fulminant hepatitis fulminate fulminating Fulminating colitis fulvestrant Fulvicin fulvine fumagillin fumarase			Full Vacuum Full Valence Multiconfiguration Self-Consistent Field Full Valence Rydberg Configuration Interaction Full Valence-Complete Active Space-Self Consistent Field Full Value Procurement Full Variability Language Full Vehicle Service History Full Veneer Gold Crown Full verb Full Vesting Full Virginia Flake Full virtualization Full Viscous Shock Layer Full Voltage Non-Reversing Full Voltage Reversing full volume Full Volume Encryption Key Full Volume Test Full Ward Test Full Wave Full Wave Center Tap full wave rectification Full wave rectifier Full wave rectifier Full wave rectifier Full Weight Bearing full weight-bearing full whack full whack full whack Full Width at Fiftieth Maximum Full width at half maximum Full width at half maximum Full width at half maximum Full Width at Half Peak Full Width at One-Tenth Maximum Full Width at Quarter Maximum Full Width at Tenth Area Full Width at Tenth Maximum Full Width at the Half-Height Full Width at Zero Intensity Full Width Attack Mine Full Width Deformable Barrier Full Windsor knot Full Wire Speed Full Wireless System in Package full wires Full Year Full Year Effect Full Year Estimate Full Year Forecast Full Year Projection Full Zip Fleece Full, Abrupt Control Movement Full, Final and Complete

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