Ellis had already withdrawn from the Leicester team because of an Achilles tendon injury and he must also be in doubt for Saturday. |
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The Achilles tendon is the thick, strong tendon that joins the calf muscles to the heel bone. |
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Troy is at its best in the climactic fight scene between Hector and Achilles, and its aftermath. |
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I've had a run of bad luck with illness and Achilles problems and now this. |
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Physical examination revealed pale skin and mucous membranes, as well as bilaterally decreased patellar and Achilles tendon reflexes. |
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Then, begin stretching the plantar fascia and the Achilles tendon, which attaches the calf muscles to the heel bone. |
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It is dangerously ambitious, if not outright hubristic, to use Homer's poem about the rage of Achilles as your source. |
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In fact, that was the Congress' Achilles heel as it scouted for more supporters. |
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If Bobbitt's predictions prove correct, The Shield of Achilles will rightly be seen as an epochal work. |
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The tissue-welding experiments were extended to studies on rabbit Achilles tendons. |
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The second story transports us into the high-pitched world of the famous Greek heroes Ajax and Achilles. |
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Typically they overlie pressure areas, including elbows, fingers, and Achilles, ischial, and sacral prominences. |
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Conditions that increase tension on the plantar fascia and may cause pain include pes planus, pes cavus, and a tight Achilles tendon. |
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It decreases the tensile forces placed upon the Achilles tendon via dissemination of forces resulting from a muscular contraction. |
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Thus disguised as a maiden, Achilles is introduced as his sister into the court of Lycomedes and there joins the company of the king's daughters. |
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Palpation of the Achilles tendon often elicits tenderness along the tendon. |
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This strap helps alleviate the pain and discomfort of Achilles tendonitis, an ailment common among basketball players. |
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Achilles tendonitis is common when persons first take up athletic activities. |
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Among younger dancers, overuse injuries like shin splints and Achilles tendinitis are common. |
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The 28-year-old Dutch striker has been out of action for nearly three months because of an Achilles injury. |
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The oracle was consulted by Achilles, Heracles and other mythological heroes. |
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The oracle told that the cure would come to Telephos by means of rust from the sword of the very Achilles who had wounded him. |
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For example, the Achilles tendon, attached to the heel bone, is one of the most important elements in a human's bouncy gait. |
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A tight Achilles tendon pulls harder on the heel bone and exerts more pressure on the bottom of the foot. |
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The Shield of Achilles synthesises his various strands of expertise, weaving history with statecraft, law, diplomacy and military strategy. |
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Because of the Achilles tendon's insertion into the calcaneus, the tendon can be exposed to forces secondary to subtalar motion. |
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This is the second most common type of mechanically induced heel pain, caused by inflammation of the Achilles tendon and bursitis. |
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Although bursitis and tendinitis often improve with home treatment, a ruptured Achilles tendon usually requires surgical repair. |
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Other locations include the ulnar aspects of the forearm, olecranon, and prepatellar bursae, Achilles tendons, and hands. |
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Brad Pitt, who heads a stellar cast as the unconquerable hero Achilles, was intrigued by his complex, multi-faceted character. |
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The Greeks send an embassy to Achilles requesting his return to battle in exchange for treasure and an unharmed Briseis. |
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Thetis gives birth to a son, Achilles, whom she attempts to make immortal by dipping him in the magical waters of the River Styx. |
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That was true, if having the singletree fall on me while I helped harness Samson and Achilles up to the cargo wagon could be deemed honorable. |
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Much of this relates to the fuel delivery system, the previous Achilles heel of the diesel engine. |
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Mal-alignment factors above the ankle, such as genu varum, can also contribute to increased stress on the Achilles tendon. |
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The gastrocnemius muscle and soleus muscle, via the Achilles tendon, function as the chief plantar flexors of the ankle joint. |
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He snapped his Achilles heel while bending to pick up a shuttlecock and will be in plaster for three months. |
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It's usually at this point that people pick up niggles like shin splints or knee problems or injure their Achilles tendon. |
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The seal should cup the Achilles tendon firmly, bracing the heel while buckling the ball of your foot up and torquing your toes down. |
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In a patient with an Achilles rupture, only a flicker of movement on the pressure gauge is discernible with dorsiflexion. |
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Some patients may present with tendinopathy at the insertion of the Achilles tendon on the calcaneus. |
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On physical examination, a prominence may be appreciated medially and laterally to the Achilles tendon insertion. |
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Unlike Achilles, who enjoyed divine maternity, Odysseus is solely of human parentage. |
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The oracle ordered the Thessalians to sail to Troy each year to sacrifice to Achilles. |
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A Greek myth relates that Achilles used some form of the Yarrow for poulticing the wounds of his soldiers. |
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These valuations have opened an abyss between person and person over which an Achilles of free thought could not leap, shutter how he may. |
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Yet we hate the aching knees, ankles and Achilles tendons, the elaborate warm-up and warm-down times, the endless stretching. |
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In terms of simple military success, Achilles is 'the best of the Achaeans', or Greeks, but he takes the heroic code of honour to extremes. |
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Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. |
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The 29-year-old has slotted into Anderson's team with a minimum of fuss after eight months out of football with an Achilles injury. |
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His curveball came, though, in the form of a severed Achilles tendon that ended his dreams of making the majors. |
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Painful Achilles tendon is a syndrome that can affect people of all ages and activity levels. |
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One of every six players studied was playing with ongoing pain in the Achilles tendon region, most often in the midportion of the tendon. |
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A common sprain injury is a torn Achilles tendon, which connects the calf muscles to the heel. |
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Ankle and ligament damage is also common, as well as Achilles tendon rupture and calf tendon tears. |
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This combination will challenge your balance, firm the glutes and thighs, and stretch the Achilles tendons and shin muscles. |
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Now repeatedly raise and lower your heels for a strong stretch of the calves and Achilles tendons. |
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At the end of the two weeks he sustained a full rupture of both Achilles tendons when he crouched down to put a video in his machine. |
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Poor training routines can contribute to soft tissue injuries such as those to Achilles tendons, hamstrings and calf and adductor muscles. |
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Lower your heels at a slow to moderate speed until you feel a strong stretch in your Achilles tendons and calf muscles. |
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Think of a runner with tight calf muscles and a tight Achilles tendon running up a hill. |
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You'll also need to stretch the major muscle groups used for dancing, including your hamstrings and Achilles tendons. |
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This is especially true if the rupture is in the Achilles tendon, the tendon just above the heel. |
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The second patient sustained a heavy blow to the Achilles tendon from a falling metal bar 10 weeks after the initial trauma. |
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The political failure to create a national liberation front is the Achilles heel of the resistance. |
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As in other conditions with the Achilles tendon, it is frequently aggravated by hill running and interval training. |
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But he severely strained his Achilles tendons when the staff exercised him too hard. |
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Thickening of the Achilles tendon following an operation has been widely reported. |
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Wearing high heels may lead to contracture of the Achilles tendon leading to tendon problems behind the heel and also pain under the heel. |
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In training two days later, her Achilles tore on the take-off for an Arabian double front on floor exercise. |
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Without warning, the sensors on the Achilles pinged a pair of hyperspace contacts headed straight for Inner Sol. |
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This concentration on rationalizing the tax system, however, fatally ignored the real Achilles heel of the royal finances. |
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Though she discovered a passion for running in the mountains, the stress aggravated a previous injury, and Ratkovic ruptured her Achilles tendon. |
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Deep tendon reflexes of the patellar and Achilles tendon were normal. |
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A second doctor suggested it might be possible to extend his Achilles tendon. |
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Alexander the Great fashioned himself after Achilles and very much identified with him. |
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It is already beyond repair in Yemen, the Achilles heel of Arabia where the police state has fractured and fallen apart. |
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But it also represents the Achilles heel of a company that loves to look backward more than it does forward. |
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We amplified the scene with Agamemnon to let people understand that Achilles is not acting out of pettiness. |
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The most common cause of posterior heel bursitis is ill-fitting footwear with a stiff posterior edge that abrades the area of the Achilles tendon insertion. |
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Tearing of tendons is rare, because their breaking strength is high, but the Achilles tendon for example is sometimes the victim of sports injury. |
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The following year she was favourite to take world championships gold in Athens but left the track in tears after suffering a ruptured Achilles tendon and a torn calf muscle. |
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Small lumps, called rheumatoid nodules, may form under your skin at pressure points, and can occur at your elbows, hands, feet and Achilles tendons. |
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Thanks to an elastic band that connects the shoe's tongue to the sidewalls and a heel cup with a notch for your Achilles tendon, the fit is superb. |
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To keep your Achilles tendons happy it even has adjustable heel lifts. |
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The following year, a surgeon told her her career was over after she was stretchered off the track at the world championships with a ruptured Achilles tendon. |
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Athena strengthens Achilles by planting ambrosia and honey in his chest. |
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Zeus observes that Achilles is fasting and reprimands Athena. |
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Achilles goes out to the wagon and takes two capes and a shirt for Hector's body, ordering his men to clean and anoint the body before Priam sees it. |
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In an earlier study we used Achilles tendon reflex modulation as a measure for somatic motor preparation in response to sexual appetitive stimuli. |
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Especially the bit where Achilles has sacked the temple of Apollo and goes out onto the hilltop to raise his sword to the cheers of the army on the beach below. |
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Both British naval officers assumed that the engines were in working order as the ship had sailed at speed to Montevideo to escape the Ajax and Achilles. |
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The fragile nature of the ballet dancer's trade is brought into excruciating focus when the company's most prized ballerina snaps her Achilles tendon in rehearsal. |
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One particularly disastrous game sent Gore from the gym to the hospital with a torn Achilles tendon. |
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I jog until my Achilles tendons burn and replace meals with diet shakes that give me gas. |
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The plantaris tendon inserts most commonly via a fan-shaped expansion into the medial aspect of the insertion site of the calcaneal tuberosity of the Achilles tendon. |
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The tibial nerve, located between the medial malleolus and Achilles tendon, supplies the medial portion of the sole and the medial side of the foot. |
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Histologic studies have revealed altered fiber structure, increased vascularity, and changes in the extracellular matrix in patients with chronically painful Achilles tendons. |
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The designs on the shield of Achilles, in Book XVIII of the Iliad, contrast scenes of peace and harmonious governance, harvest and the vintage with scenes of war and battle. |
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In this position the Achilles tendon of the leading foot can be inserted in the gap between the big toe and the first lesser toe to help correct a bunion. |
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I had a pinched nerve in my back and a bursa on my Achilles tendon. |
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In these patients, we have reinserted the Achilles tendon in the calcaneus with two to five bone anchors, depending on the amount of tendon disinserted. |
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A longitudinal incision was made midway between the lateral border of the Achilles tendon and the superolateral crest of the calcaneus, with a slight anterior curve. |
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The Achilles tendon spans two joints and connects the calcaneus to the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, comprising the largest and strongest muscle complex in the calf. |
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Pitt's character, the warrior Achilles, is no longer virtually invincible because he was dipped in the River Styx by his mother, the nymph Thetis. |
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Retrocalcaneal bursitis is a distinct entity hallmarked by pain that is anterior to the Achilles tendon and just superior to its insertion on the os calcis. |
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They occur in the lungs, heart, kidney, and dura mater, in addition to the extensor surface of the forearm, olecranon, Achilles tendons, and ischial area. |
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The economy's Achilles heel is overinvestment by businesses. |
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Involvement of the sites of insertion of ligaments and tendons is manifested clinically as Achilles tendinitis, plantar fasciitis, and costochondritis. |
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He inspires Asteropaeus with the courage to stand up to Achilles. |
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He had a groin injury at the 1982 World Cup, dislocated his shoulder at the 1986 World Cup and was invalided home from the 1990 World Cup with an Achilles tendon problem. |
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Occasionally, a digitation of bone from the calcaneus to the Achilles tendon is radiographically evident and is associated with retrocalcaneal bursitis. |
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If your toe is overextending and rubbing on the top of the toe box, you can try increased Achilles tendon stretching. |
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Routinely palpating the Achilles tendons ensures that xanthomata are not missed and also gives one a good appreciation of the range of normality. |
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An Achilles tenotomy, or if required a posterior release, results in a plantigrade, mobile foot that prevents point loading and pressure sores. |
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The great gates of the city are opened to receive the fleeing Trojans, and Apollo leads Achilles away from the city by pretending to be a Trojan. |
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The river, angry at the killing, confronts Achilles but is beaten back by Hephaestus' firestorm. |
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Meanwhile, at Thetis' request, Hephaestus fashions a new set of armor for Achilles, including a magnificently wrought shield. |
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Other surgical procedures include exostectomy of bony prominences, osteotomy, partial tarsectomy, and Achilles tendon lengthening. |
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From all sides the familiar shout is raised and Achilles once more brandishes the thyrsus. |
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Allograft tissue included tibialis anterior, tibialis posterior, patellar tendon, and Achilles. |
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Severe overpronators are susceptible to Achilles tendinitis, runner's knee, and shinsplints. |
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The use of xenogenic small intestinal sub mucosa as biomaterials for Achilles tendon repair in a dog model. |
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The Sussex wicketkeeper struggled with his persistent Achilles injury during the first Test at Trent Bridge. |
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He knew what their Achilles heels were and he was spotting their weaknesses. |
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For indeed brilliant Achilles killed my father, and he utterly sacked the well-inhabited city of the Cilicians, high-gated Thebe. |
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On a separate day, an MRI scanner took images of each man's heels and Achilles tendons. |
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Encouraged by SIS' potential, Badylak's team then used the material to replace canine knee ligaments and Achilles tendons. |
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Had some of my patients worn sturdy, well constructed hiking boots, they wouldn't have suffered sprained ankles or strained Achilles tendons. |
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Hold me. I am perishing. Achilles We can never perish. It is Unlove and unhate that give form To phantasms of time and space. |
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We tried to stay with a very strict core, which is Achilles and Hector. |
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The evidence evaluating corticosteroid injections for rotator cuff, patellar, or Achilles tendinopathy was too patchy to be useful. |
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Alexander and lifelong pal Hephaistion make a lot of goo-goo eyes at each other and talk a lot about the love of warriors Achilles and Patroclus. |
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The Trojan seer Polydamas urges Hector to fall back and warns him about Achilles, but is ignored. |
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You probably need more specific stretching for both the Achilles tendon and the plantar fascia. |
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But fire, set off by Hephaistos at Hera's command, drives the Xanthus back and saves Achilles. |
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Fred Moore, our storage editor-at-large, has clearly warned that electric power is the Achilles heel of the computer industry. |
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Achilles becomes very upset, sits by the seashore, and prays to his mother, Thetis. |
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Angered, Achilles declares that he and his men will no longer fight for Agamemnon but will go home. |
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After nine days of plague, Achilles, the leader of the Myrmidon contingent, calls an assembly to deal with the problem. |
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Adaptational responses of the human Achilles tendon by modulation of the applied cyclic strain magnitude. |
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William Theed the elder made an impressive bronze statue of Thetis as she brought Achilles his new armor forged by Hephaesthus. |
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Achilles killed both of these, but Paris then managed to kill Achilles with an arrow in the heel. |
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Previously existing myths, such as those of Achilles and Patroclus, also then were cast in a pederastic light. |
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However, in Book XX he rescues Aeneas after the Trojan prince is laid low by Achilles. |
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Historians commend Alexander for weeping when he read the actions of Achilles. |
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Divinely aided, Aeneas escapes the wrath of Achilles and survives the Trojan War. |
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In the compartments of the shield of Achilles Homer describes the adjudgment of a fine for homicide. |
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Again, the Wrath of Achilles turns the war's tide in seeking vengeance when Hector kills Patroclus. |
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When Agamemnon takes Briseis from Achilles, he takes away a portion of the kleos he had earned. |
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Yet, Achilles must choose only one of the two rewards, either nostos or kleos. |
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Before dying, Hector reminds Achilles that he, too, is fated to die in the war. |
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When Achilles approaches, Hector's will fails him, and he is chased around the city by Achilles. |
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The question of whether Achilles is more motivated by slighted honor or love for Briseis is debated extensively in the surviving scholia, on which see Fantuzzi. |
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Achilles relents and lends Patroclus his armor, but sends him off with a stern admonition not to pursue the Trojans, lest he take Achilles' glory. |
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The Greeks hold a day of funeral games, and Achilles gives out the prizes. |
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This successful homecoming is unlike Achilles, who has fame but is dead, and Agamemnon, who had an unsuccessful homecoming resulting in his death. |
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The earliest known ancestor of primates is Archicebus achilles from around 55 million years ago. |
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Achilles asks his mother to ask Zeus to bring the Greeks to the breaking point by the Trojans, so Agamemnon will realize how much the Greeks need Achilles. |
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There are over 20 types of running injuries including plantar faciitis, shin splints, Achilles tendinitis, runner's knee, and iliotibial band syndrome. |
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The bout started as a stalemate until the sixth round, when Haye injured his achilles causing him to fall twice. |
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The only concern for South Africa was the sight of influential lock Bakkies Botha, who has struggled with an Achilles injury, limping off in the second half. |
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Achilles is urged to help retrieve Patroclus' body but has no armour. |
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Chapters discuss such topics as antitrust regulations, policies intended to correct market failures, common Achilles heels of social goals policies, and much more. |
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Achilles is moved to tears, and the two lament their losses in the war. |
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The most common were plantar fascitis and Achilles tendinopathies. |
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He clasps Achilles by the knees and begs for his son's body. |
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The play, often considered to be a comedy, reverses traditional views on events of the Trojan War and depicts Achilles as a coward, Ajax as a dull, unthinking mercenary, etc. |
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For her dissertation, she investigated a problem she experienced last season when she overtrained in preparation for events and injured her achilles tendon. |
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Haye ruptured his right achilles tendon and underwent surgery. |
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