(n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
(n.) Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.
(n.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.
(n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.
(n.) To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.
(n.) To rail at; to scold.
(v. i.) To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present study includes six patients, (involving ten feet), who developed hallux varus and great toe clawing after McBride procedures were performed by various orthopedic surgeons.
(2) The euro clawed back some losses after the European Central Bank said it would absorb €16.5bn from the money markets to compensate for bond purchases up to 14 May, and Greece said it would receive the first tranche of emergency loans tomorrow.
(3) The carbohydrate compounds of the mucus of flask cells in the kidney of claw-frogs (Xenopus laevis) were studied by gold marked lectins (WGA, RCA, L, LCA, HPA, PNA).
(4) Westwood came within an inch of clawing back a shot with a firm, brave putt, but went to the 16th having to birdie his way to the clubhouse to pull off a minor miracle.
(5) The object of this study was to examine the effects of exogenous and endogenous prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) on the sexual behavior of female South African clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis.
(6) I used to love jumping into the mosh pit, then climbing back on stage with red claw marks all over my body."
(7) Other robots in the Boston Dynamics stable include Petman, a robot that tests humanoid chemical protective clothing; the wheeled SandFlea robot that can leap small buildings; a small six-legged robot capable of traversing rough terrain called RHex; and the RiSE robot capable of climbing vertical walls, trees and fences using feet with micro-claws.
(8) Stable claws develop in animals housed on floors with soft surfaces or under restricted movement.
(9) A novel and important observation made is that the different caffeine treatments affected the staining by alizarin of both claws and bones in a qualitatively and quantitatively similar manner.
(10) Quantitative and morphological data were obtained on developing olfactory axons in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, during late premetamorphosis (stages 48-54), prometamorphosis (stages 55-57), and halfway through metamorphic climax (stages 58-62).
(11) A wooden block is glued to the sound claw and parenteral antibiotics are administered for four to six days.
(12) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
(13) Treatment utilized partial proximal phalangeal resection, with and without silicone single-stem implants, extensor hallucis longus tendon transfer to the great toe metatarsal, and interphalangeal joint arthrodesis, or tenodesis of the great toe to correct clawing.
(14) Tadpoles at stage 50 could regenerate toes and claws without defect, but in the later the regenerative capacity gradually declined by reducing the number of toes and claws and accompanied by malformation of skeleton as the stage proceeded.
(15) I am expert in navigating the systems, on clawing my way to some work and juggling the admin to stay in that work.
(16) Apart from plantar and palmar insensitivity which accounted for 17.91% and 17.24% of all deformities, the most frequent deformities were mobile claw hand 12.94%, plantar ulcers 10.78% and palmar ulcers 5.97% respectively.
(17) Then, just as the world starts to claw its way back to some kind of normality, they start kicking the props away.
(18) In medico cubital paralysis one must also cure the "cubital claw of the thumb".
(19) Bill Shorten has used the ALP conference to claw back some authority I Lenore Taylor Read more While the notion of a federal Icac has won support in the past from independents such Tony Windsor and senator Nick Xenophon, the major parties have shown a distinct lack of appetite for such a body.
(20) A claw amputation was performed because of the advanced destructive nature of the lesion.
Clew
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Clue
(n.) To direct; to guide, as by a thread.
(n.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore it may be assumed that it is rather a random finding and that it is a type of clew-like nerve ending.
(2) Darren Clews, who was Daniel's headteacher at Little Heath primary, has left the school and is now in charge of Grangehurst, also in Coventry.
(3) The most frequent is thin and sinous, sometimes forming clews, or loose basket-like arrangement around presumed nerve cells.
(4) This enables the angiographic laminae vascularis, which define the sulci in a "semi-direct" manner, to be used a kind of "Ariadne's clew" to identify cortical structures on RMI sections.
(5) The ultrastructural characteristics of the branched-axon and clew-like corpuscles, however, were not reported.
(6) The sensory nerve endings were divided into the following groups: free endings and arborizations, spray-like endings, seven types of clew-like nerve endings, and Pacinian corpuscles.
(7) You’re likely to be the only soul swimming in this tiny cove, with staggering views back towards islet-pocked Clew Bay.
(8) Graham Clews Lewes, East Sussex • I can’t help thinking that the Guardian’s Keep it in the ground campaign is not really serious as long as you are willing to take full-page advertising from the likes of Total, as per page 24 on 25 April.
(9) It is the clew-like endings that absolutely predominate, they were 2,027 in number.
(10) Educating Essex came about as a result of Leach's decision to hire director David Clews, an expert in observational documentaries relying on a "fixed rig" of cameras permanently on location, and Andrew Mackenzie, Twofour's creative director.
(11) Under the light microscope, the encapsulated corpuscles of the mouse lower lip mucosa were only classified into 4 types, simple, ramifying, branched-axon, and clew-like corpuscles.
(12) The main difference consists in the rate of occurrence (89.6 as against 57.8) and in the thickness of the capsule, while the nerve clew proper does not grow in diameter.
(13) "Pupils are under much more stress these days and so are staff, yet teachers don't have training in mental health – or spare time," says Moira Clewes, lead teacher on health at Sandwich technology school, Kent, one of the schools piloting the project.
(14) A council spokesman said neither Green's retirement nor Clews' move were connected to the Pelka case.
(15) No clew-like type corpuscles or glomerular-Meissner corpuscles were observed.
(16) As Twofour head of documentaries Clews also oversees ITV2's Magaluf Weekend and ITV's Happy Families.