Leg

A leg is a weight bearing and locomotive structure, usually having a columnar shape. During locomotion, legs function as "extensible struts". The combination of movements at all joints can be modeled as a single, linear element capable of changing length and rotating about an omnidirectional "hip" joint.

As an anatomical animal structure it is used for locomotion. The distal end is often modified to distribute force (such as a foot). Most animals have an even number of legs.

As a component of furniture it is used for the economy of materials needed to provide the support for the useful surface, the table top or chair seat.

Terminology

Uniped: 1 leg, such as clams

Biped: 2 legs, such as humans and birds

Triped: 3 legs, which does not occur naturally in healthy animals

Quadruped: 4 legs, such as dogs and horses.

Many taxa are characterized by the number of legs:

Tetrapods have four legs.

Arthropoda: 4, 6 (Insecta), 8, 12, or 14 legs. Some arthropods have more than a dozen legs; a few species possess over 100. Despite what their names might suggest, centipedes ("hundred feet") may have fewer than 20 or more than 300 legs, and millipedes ("thousand feet") have fewer than 1,000 legs, but up to 750.

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Aluquerque Journal 18 Jan 2019

Editor’s note. The following information was taken from Rio Rancho Police reports. Names are withheld because one person charged was a minor and the adult’s records aren’t available on the New Mexico courts website. Because we don’t have those records, we don’t yet know if formal charges were filed. Charges filed by police are informal. […] ... ....

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Man shoots leg after hot casing mishap in Bismarck

The Dickinson Press 17 Jan 2019

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This is Money 17 Jan 2019

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The Star 17 Jan 2019

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The Mirror 17 Jan 2019

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The Daily Times 17 Jan 2019

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The Daily Mail 17 Jan 2019

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Toddler 'was born with BACKWARDS LEGS' due to a one-in-a-million birth defect

The Daily Mail 17 Jan 2019

Victoria Komada, of Norwich, was born with tibial bilateral hemimelia, which caused the now three-year-old to have a missing shinbone in her right leg and a shortened one in her left limb ... ....