However, groins with a zigzag shape are rarely investigated and studied.
The finding from this study may be employed in designing T-shape groins.
The vaults used by the Romans were simple geometric forms: the barrel vault (semicircular in shape), the intersecting (groined) barrel vault, and the segmental vault.
Instead of subjecting Skierka to open-heart surgery, the doctor made a small incision in his groin and guided a thin metal hourglass-shape frame holding a tightly folded porcine-tissue valve into his heart.
The evolving technique of ballet, with its focus on preternaturally supple bodies, its frank display of buttocks, groin and torso, has historically been shaped by male choreographers to please their own gaze.
With 7 minutes 51 seconds left in the third quarter of the Lakers' stunning win over the back-to-back NBA champion Golden State Warriors on Christmas night, LeBron James strained his left groin to create the turning point on what was shaping up as a promising season.
Manager JOE TORRE said that Rivera's groin injury had healed, but that he needed to get into pitching shape.... JASON GIAMBI left Wednesday's game after being hit by a pitch on his left forearm in the seventh inning.
This over-dependence on body-fitted, hourglass shapes (this is by Zac Posen) that emphasise the groin area: not.
Sophisticated but unsatisfactory attempts to vault the great basilican naves safely, with elements of Roman, Byzantine, or Eastern origin, impelled progressive Romanesque engineers, from about 1090 onward, to invent a new type of ribbed groin-vaulted unit bay, using pointed arches to distribute thrust and improve the shape of the geometric surfaces.
The extremity was again put in groin-to-toe cast.
I'm in pretty good shape but I need to get back to the physio and work on my groin area".
