head to toe
Covering everything bodily
Head to toe means covering the entire body, from top to bottom.
The phrase describes completeness of coverage: She was dressed head to toe in black, He was covered head to toe in mud.
It emphasizes thoroughness or totality, whether literal or figurative: The doctor examined her from head to toe.
- all overIn every place
- top to bottomCovering the whole extent
- full-bodyInvolving all anatomy
- full body scanMedical imaging of everything
- scalpSkin covering skull
fully · cap-a-pie · sole · clothing · end-to-end · comprehensive · forehead · exhaustive · crown · holistic · all-encompassing · makeover · thorough · every inch · extremities · literally · pervasive · once over
- completenesscomplete, completely, entire, totally, total
- clinical assessmentsvital signs, blood pressure, heart rate, pulse, respiration
head to toepartial
Favoring one side
partly · here and there · piecemeal · incompletely · selectively
head to toesuperficially
At surface level only
cursorily · partially · halfway · incompletely · sketchily
head to toepartially
To an incomplete extent
incompletely · in part · here and there · sporadically · patchily
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