dead leg

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

名詞

別表記 異形

A blow to the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone and crushing the nerve cluster next to the quadriceps. Also, the resulting injury.

日本語の意味

大腿上部への打撃で、筋肉が骨に押しつぶされ、大腿四頭筋のそばの神経叢も圧迫されるもの。また、その結果生じるけが。

英語の意味

A blow to the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone and crushing the nerve cluster next to the quadriceps. Also, the resulting injury.

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He suffered a dead leg during the game that left his upper thigh numb and swollen after the muscle was crushed against the bone and the nearby nerve cluster was injured.

試合中に太ももの上部を強く打たれて筋肉が骨に押し付けられ、大腿四頭筋付近の神経束が損傷してその部分がしびれ腫れた。

詳細

意味（1）

A blow to the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone and crushing the nerve cluster next to the quadriceps. Also, the resulting injury.

I kneed you, I said, and I gave him a dead leg.

詳細

意味（2）

Alternative form of deadleg (isolated section of pipe with no outflow).

However, care has to be taken to prevent oily material congealing on the walls of pipes, tanks, pumps and other equipments where there are points of restrictions as valves, bends or dead legs.

詳細

意味（3）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, leg.

dead legs （ plural ）