Pekingese are small (3 to 6 kilos, or about 7 to 14 pounds), have a characteristic flat face, big eyes, and
bowed legs which make them waddle around the house.
Not exact matches
Skeletal dysplasias, in
which bones don't form normally, and usually include other issues, such as short stature, in addition to
bowed legs
Most children grow out of the
bow -
legged position after a few months but some may continue to be in this state until they learn to walk,
which again is completely normal.
Confirming what many chemists and nutritionists suspected, within the next decade researchers discovered the presence of vitamins in foods, including vitamin D,
which prevents rickets, a softening of the bones that produced
bowed legs in small children.
Insufficient levels of Vitamin D can lead to rickets, a condition
which is marked by weak bones, poor bone development, and
bowed legs.
There is also the matter of mechanical loading on the bone itself - the long bones (of the
legs, for example)
bow ever so slightly under heavy loading,
which results in adaptation (bone thickening across the entire length of the bone) to prevent possible damage in the future.
He's
bow -
legged and sway - backed
which helps makes him as cute as he is.
At her disposal is a satisfying array of creative weaponry, including
bows with multiple types of arrows, bomb slingers, mines, and a couple of cool tools called a tripcaster —
which quickly creates tripwire traps of varying types that can shock, blast, or freeze an enemy — and a ropecaster,
which can tangle an enemy's
legs.
Try the Painswick, with its double
bow, # 1,530; the Nicola (pictured),
which has klismos
legs; or the Silver Banded, featuring elongated diamonds of stainless - steel inlay in the doors, both from # 2,950.