(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.
Ungual
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a nail, claw, talon, or hoof, or resembling one.
(a.) Having a nail, claw, or hoof attached; -- said of certain bones of the feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The technique and significance of nail biopsies with regard to mycotic and bacterial infections, onychopathy associated with cutaneous and systemic diseases, and benign and malignant ungual neoplasms is discussed.
(2) Injections, radiographs, microdissection, corrosion and transillumination allowed establishment of groups to describe variations in palmar, dorsal, pulpal and ungual artery distribution.
(3) Several methods are available for studying distal vascularization: peri-ungual capillaroscopy, digital plethysmography and laser-Doppler.
(4) The anatomy of the ungual tuberosity is highly variable.
(5) The present study compared the effectiveness and tolerability of two topical ungual preparations: a 28% solution of tioconazole and a 2% tincture of miconazole.
(6) Adhesives and surgical techniques are of limited value in the fixation of ungual prostheses.
(7) A 48-year-old Caucasian male with a 3 mm sub-ungual right middle finger melanoma underwent cisplatin forequarter perfusion, ray amputation, and ipsilateral axillary node dissection.
(8) The surgical approach was usually para ungual, in a sub-periosteal plane.
(9) The nail is part of the ungual unit; it is affected indirectly and late in vascular disease.
(10) Ungual lichen planus may occur without any mucocutaneous signs, as has been documented by histologic studies.
(11) For this reason, any subject at risk of diabetes should undergo at least one annual capillaroscopic examination of the ocular conjunctiva or if not, of the peri-ungual region.
(12) The glucagonoma syndrome is characterized by necrolytic migratory erythema, glossitis, ungual dystrophy, diabetes mellitus, anemia, weight loss, elevated plasma glucagon levels and an alpha-cell glucagon-secreting neoplasm of the pancreas.
(13) Observation over time showed that preclinical signs in the form of x-ray morphological changes in the hand joints were the following: a niche in the fifth finger middle phalanx metaphysis or (less frequently) in the thumb ungual phalanx and foci of epiphyseal outer resorption.
(14) The authors report the case of a child who, at the age of 18 months showed signs of hypoparathyroidism together with gastrointestinal, then buccal, then ungual candidiasis.
(15) At the age of four the patient was referred for congenital malformations of the hands, and notably bilateral and symmetrical abnormalities of the 5th finger consisting of inflammatory-like tapering, soft tissue hypotrophy, sucked appearance of the ungual phalanx, absence of palmar flexion folds and skin ridges and above all, presence of an ectopic supernumerary nail on the volar aspect of the ungual phalanx.
(16) This study was designed to determine criteria of normality of peri-ungual capillaroscopy of the toes.
(17) Candida albicans was detected in the ungual lesions of some patients.
(18) The ungual phalanges of the affected fingers were lacking in the crescent-shaped cap and had a blunt Y-shaped bony projection.
(19) The modes of spread of fungal infection on the nails are discussed stressing the essential importance of the knowledge of this mode for finding of effective treatment of ungual trichophytosis.
(20) The ungual tuft of the digits corresponds to an enthesis at which usually numerous reactions take place especially in adults.