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unusual facts about lower leg



Keepie uppie

Keepie uppie, or "kick-ups" is the skill of juggling with a football using feet, lower legs, knees, chest, shoulders, and head, without allowing the ball to hit the ground.


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Bradycneme

It is known only from a partial right lower leg (specimen BMNH A1588), which its original describers believed came from a giant owl.

Dafo

DAFO (Dynamic Ankle Foot Orthosis), a brand name for some lower extremity braces that provide thin, flexible, external support to the foot, ankle and/or lower leg

Marcos Painter

During a game against SK Brann, his tackle on Slovenian international, Fabijan Cipot, broke both bones of the player's lower leg.

Noripterus

The genus Phobetor, named after the Greek god of nightmares, was in 1982 originally described by Natasha Bakhurina as a species of Dsungaripterus (D. parvus), based on a single lower leg bone, PIN 3953.

Tayte Pears

He played his first game of the year against North Melbourne in Round 13 and was looking more comfortable before breaking his lower leg and then straining a hamstring in the elimination final.

Trews

They were fastened at the lower leg, below the knee, by a garter (the precursor to the flashes of the Highland Dress) as can be seen in the painting by David Morier of the Battle of Culloden.

Willi Hein

In September 1944 Hein was given command of the I.Battalion, 5th SS Panzer Regiment, shortly afterward on 5 January 1945 Hein was severely wounded in his lower leg in the fighting for Budapest and spent the rest of the war in hospital at Bad Aussee in Austria.