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On the other hand, the spine's floppiness lets you use either half of the book independently.

It reminded him of a bloodhound, there was such a floppiness about his deeply wrinkled skin.

This image demonstrates the floppiness of a hypotonic infant.

Instead what I saw were baseball caps worn frontward or backward, golf hats in various degrees of floppiness, T-shirts, shorts, sneakers.

And now comes Grandma, being old-fashioned and curmudgeonly, preparing to fulfill her destiny while squeezing all the stuffed animals to find the right degree of floppiness.

They daub themselves with 45-SPF sunblock and waddle over the sand, trying to hold in the white floppiness of their midsections, especially while passing the lifeguard stand.

Affected infants have diminished muscle tone (hypotonia) resulting in abnormal "floppiness", muscle weakness, and a variety of skeletal abnormalities such as side-to-side curvature of the spine (scoliosis).

In a review in The New York Times, Clive Barnes described the costumes as having "the white floppiness of Beardsley and the bedraggled poetry of Picasso saltimbanques."

Symptoms may include an abnormally large head (macrocephaly), lack of head control, severely diminished muscle tone resulting in "floppiness", and delays in reaching developmental milestones such as independent sitting and walking.

He has all of Mitt's flip floppiness, along with Santorum's sanctimoniousness and Cain's baseless self assurance- with a hint of John Edward's personal morals thrown in the mix.

With its tumbles and falls, its shudders and tremblings, its sudden contrasts between rigidity and floppiness and its virtuosic balances on heads and shoulders, hip-hop is unquestionably eye-catching.

Set in blank, smoky spaces or generalized landscapes that seem conventionally biblical, Chagall's robed figures mime rather than portray real emotion, with a cartoonish sweetness and the floppiness of rag dolls.

Symptoms and findings associated with the group of neuromuscular disorders formerly known as benign congenital hypotonia include low muscle tone (hypotonia) at birth or in the first few months and general "floppiness" of muscles.

Symptoms of Canavan disease, which appear in early infancy and progress rapidly, may include mental retardation, loss of previously acquired motor skills, feeding difficulties, abnormal muscle tone (i.e., floppiness or stiffness), poor head control, and megalocephaly (abnormally enlarged head).

Kate Garroway and Donna Costello followed her in choreography that marked contrasting states of rigidity and floppiness to a melancholy score by Shawn Onsgard for Alex Weinstein, a guitarist, and Ken Thomson, on clarinet and saxophone.