Leg bye Leg bye In the sport of cricket, a leg bye is a run scored by the batting team if the batsman has not hit the ball with his or her bat, but the ball has hit the batsman's body or protective gear. It is covered by Law 23 of the Laws of Cricket. If the ball deflects off the batsman's body he can attempt to score runs in a similar manner as if he had hit the ball. The number of runs scored are scored as leg byes – they are added to the team's total, but not to the
Arthropod leg Arthropod leg The arthropod leg is a form of jointed appendage of arthropods, usually used for walking. Many of the terms used for arthropod leg segments (called podomeres) are of Latin origin, and may be confused with terms for bones: "coxa" (meaning hip, plural "coxae"), "trochanter" (compare trochanter), "femur" (plural "femora"), "tibia" (plural "tibiae"), "tarsus" (plural "tarsi"), "ischium" (plural "ischia"), "metatarsus", "carpus", "dactylus" (meaning finger), "patella" (plural "patellae"). Homologies of leg segments between groups are difficult to prove and are the source of much argument. Some authors posit up to eleven segments per leg for the most recent common ancestor