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white leg

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Noun1.white legwhite leg - painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg following childbirth
milk leg, phlegmasia alba dolens
thrombosis - the formation or presence of a thrombus (a clot of coagulated blood attached at the site of its formation) in a blood vessel
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So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me, and the livid brand which streaked it, that for the first few moments I hardly noted that not a little of this overbearing grimness was owing to the barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
"Nay, my lord," answered Infadoos, "would my lord cover up his beautiful white legs (although he is so dark Good has a singularly white skin) from the eyes of his servants?
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
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