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gait

In medicine, the way that an individual walks as an important indicator of health and disease. Gait is affected by paralysis on one side of the body following stroke, locomotor ataxia, spastic paralysis, Parkinson's disease, and chorea.

Children usually learn to stand in their first year and they begin to walk between 12 and 18 months of age and an unusual gait may be an indication of an underlying problem, for example mental retardation, cerebral palsy, or malformation of the hip joints.
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A Fox asked him, "How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?
Fables by Aesop View in context
For several miles Worson went on very well, at an easy gait, without apparent fatigue, for he had really great powers of endurance and was not sufficiently intoxicated to enfeeble them.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
She's doing all she can--she's going her best gait, but it won't save her.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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