Pigeon-toed and Splay Foot

Pigeon-toed is a condition which causes the toes to point inward when walking. It is most common in infants and children under two years of age and, when not the result of simple muscle weakness, normally arises from one of three underlying conditions, a twisted shin bone, an excessive retroversion resulting in the twisting of the thigh bone when the front part of a person's foot is turned in. Splayfoot is an abnormal width of the forefoot  in which the feet are abnormally flat and turned outwards ,Splayfoot may develop slowly over 10 or 20 years, sometimes longer. The forefoot...

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Metacritc

Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green, Yellow and Red summarize the critic's recommendation. This gives an idea of the general appeal of the product among reviewers and, to a lesser extent, the public . The site is somewhat similar to Rotten Tomatoes, but the scoring results sometimes differ very drastically, due to Metacritic's method of scoring that converts each review into a percentage before taking a weighted average and listing different numbers of reviews. Many review websites give a review grade out of five, out of ten, out of a hundred,...

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Rotten tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films, most widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance It was launched on August 19, 1999 as a spare time project by Senh Duong.[3] His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the US."[4] His inspiration came when, as a fan of Jackie Chan, Duong started collecting all the reviews of Chan's movies as they were coming out in the United States. The first movie reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an immediate success, receiving mentions by Yahoo!, Netscape, and USA Today within the first...

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Onomatopoeia

An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia ( pronunciation (US) (help·info), from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία;ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make", adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.Onomatopoeia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar". Onomatopoeias are not the same across all languages; they conform to some extent to the broader linguistic system they are part of; hence...

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Motif

Motif may refer to the following:In creative work:Motif (music), a perceivable or salient recurring fragment or succession of notes Motif (narrative), any recurring element in a story that has symbolic significance Motif (visual arts), a repeating theme or pattern Motif (textile arts), a recurring element or fragment that, when joined together, creates a larger work In biochemistry:Sequence motif, a sequence pattern of nucleotides in a DNA sequence or amino acids in a protein Structural motif, a pattern in a protein structure formed by the spatial arrangement of amino acids Network motif, patterns (sub-graphs) that recur within...

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