(v. t.) To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.
(v. t.) To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.
(v. i.) To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
(n.) A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
(n.) Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.
(n.) Forcible possession; hold.
(n.) Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.
(n.) The handle of a sword or of an oar.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tendency of reduced forepaw grasping ability was seen in lead-treated rats during the end of the lead exposure.
(2) In the 18 month-old a more mature grasp and forearm combination, mainly palmar grasp with or without stablizing index finger + overpronated forearm, was found.
(3) And they have no intention of letting it out of their grasp.
(4) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
(5) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
(6) Lateral bias was measured for 4 behaviors: hand-to-mouth, hand-to-hand, defensive grasp, and first step.
(7) The pressure sore resulted from the commonly practised habit of grasping the upright of the wheel chair with the upper arm in order to gain stability.
(8) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
(9) There is a developmental sequence of pencil grasp, and useful development scales in copying cube models, drawing geometric shapes, and the draw-a-man test.
(10) Basilar dendrites show significantly larger numbers (p less than .05) of branching for motor I cortex under condition 3 associated with the greatest skills and amount of activity in climbing, swinging, and grasping of objects.
(11) "Although she was always a steadfast critic of apartheid, she had a much better grasp of the complexities and geostrategic realities of South Africa than many of her contemporaries," he said.
(12) What that mindset signally failed to grasp is that there is something called computer science – a discipline with fundamental concepts and principles, just like other sciences .
(13) Reading the extraordinary details in Michael Beloff’s independent ethics commission report and the second part of Dick Pound’s independent commission report, published on Thursday , it is becoming increasingly clear Diack and his two sons, plus his legal counsel Habib Cissé, were running an audacious shadow operation that grasped opportunity where ever it came.
(14) certain forms of the passive voice; the flexibility in changing between the parts of speech) made the verbal grasp of unconscious and preconscious phenomena easier for Freud, i.e.
(15) In the context of a deficit recovered against a team on the fringe of the Champions League places, and grasping for positives, it did at least offer flashes of the character the home support deemed to have been so absent of late.
(16) Ibotenate lesioned rats, despite having larger lesions than the quinolinate, showed no deficits in eating or drinking in the home cage, or reaching or grasping disabilities in the staircase test.
(17) If the party’s senior members cannot grasp this simple fact, then perhaps they ought to replace the word “Labour” in the party’s name – or cross the floor and join the Conservatives?
(18) To grasp the challenge of 2050, our report shows that public and private investments will need to be better focused towards a low carbon and circular economy.
(19) And many young people, including in the UK, do grasp the advantages.
(20) | Paul Mason Read more Donald Trump, for his part, couldn’t quite grasp the scale of Obama’s plan: “Our president wants to take in 250,000 from Syria.
Prehensile
Definition:
(n.) Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, during the dynamic phase of the task (grasping and lifting), the monkeys increased the prehensile force in multiple steps, suggesting that they relied on sensory feedback from the fingers to attain an adequate grip force to lift the object rather than programming the lift in advance.
(2) When properly applied in selected patients, this single-stage microsurgical procedure can restore prehensile function, improve the appearance of the hand with multiple digital amputations, and preserve near-normal donor-foot function.
(3) Assessment of functional status and measurements of prehensile capabilities showed that all patients had improved after surgery.
(4) After explaining the tertiary patterns of prehension the possibilities of restoring prehensile function in patients after high cervical spinal injury (C4-C6) by means of orthotics or operation are discussed.
(5) Lastly, in rheumatoid arthritis, the results in terms of pain, mobility and prehensile strength were good, apart from 2 failures due to progression of rheumatoid disease (cases unsuitable for this treatment).
(6) Kinematic analyses revealed that prehensile movements made under monocular viewing differed substantially from those performed under binocular conditions.
(7) The prehensile activity and looking behavior of 2- and 5-month-old infants were videotaped in the presence of objects placed within and beyond possible contact distance.
(8) Descending spinal pathways have been described in 'non-dextrous' avian species (chickens, ducks, geese and pigeons), and the purpose of this study was to determine if there are any differences in the origins of descending projections to the spinal cord in 'dextrous' or prehensile parrots (sulphur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, and eastern rosella, Platycerus eximius).
(9) This study provides the first clear kinematic evidence that binocular vision (stereopsis and possibly vergence) makes a significant contribution to the accurate programming of prehensile movements in humans.
(10) Certain deformities require very early treatment in order to permit prehensile function to the developing infant, or to release the impaired part.
(11) Limited nighttime observations (2130 until 0630) revealed no effects (P greater than .10) of forage on grazing time or number of prehensile bites taken.
(12) In carefully selected adult acquired spastic hemiplegic patients, release of the annular ligament at the base of the thumb can functionally restore the transverse arch of the hand, improve thumb opposition and improve prehensile capacity.
(13) The discharge frequency of some dentate and interpositus neurons could be correlated with prehensile force as well as velocity of wrist movement and torque developed by wrist muscles.
(14) All patients showed prominent reduction of number, duration and severity of attacks of Raynaud's phenomenon, improvement of prehensile strength, healing of finger ulcerations and improvement or normalization of digital photoplethysmography.
(15) It suggests that researchers have concentrated unduly upon the use of feedback to control prehensile force or joint angle and advocates a broader perspective.
(16) The mobility of the distal radioulnar joint, along with the prehensile thumb and increasing brain function, are hallmarks of the late-evolving hominids.
(17) The results are analysed for each aetiological group in terms of pain, mobility prehensile strength after more than one year of follow-up.
(18) The prehensile grip configurations of infants aged 4 through 8 months were examined as they grasped objects that varied in size and shape.
(19) Beside the importance of its prehensile function the human hand plays an essential role in the conveyance of expression.
(20) This results in a unpleasant stump of poor prehensile quality.