Usually means: Supporting body's mass against gravity.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. weight-bearing: Merriam-Webster
  2. Weight-bearing, weight-bearing: Wordnik
  3. weight-bearing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. weight-bearing: Wiktionary
  5. weight-bearing: Dictionary.com
  6. Weight-bearing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. weight-bearing: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (weight-bearing)

▸ noun:  The ability to bear weight.
▸ adjective:  That bears weight

Similar:
carriability, upbearing, shoulders, breastful, bearability, bearableness, broad shoulders, armful, capacity, ableness, more...

Opposite:
non-weight-bearing, unloading, offloading

Types:
isometric, eccentric, concentric, more...

Phrases:
full weight-bearing, more...

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Similar:
carriability, upbearing, shoulders, breastful, bearability, bearableness, broad shoulders, armful, capacity, ableness, more...

Opposite:
non-weight-bearing, unloading, offloading

Types:
isometric, eccentric, concentric, more...

Phrases:
full weight-bearing, more...



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