(n.) The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc.
(n.) A hoofed animal; a beast.
(n.) See Ungula.
(v. i.) To walk as cattle.
(v. i.) To be on a tramp; to foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radiography failed to reveal distal displacement of P3 in 8 animals, but the remaining 4 animals had an accentuation of the dorsal proximal hoof wall and cavitation of the coronary band visible on lateral radiographs.
(2) In a sign of anger on the Tory right at the change, the former defence secretary said the policy had been "made on the hoof" to appease a small and vocal minority.
(3) Pilot trials are described in which BHS, a Czechoslovak fasciolicide, was employed for mass treatment of fasciolosis in cloven-hoofed animals in wild-animals' reserves at the rate of 30 mg body weight using BHS-medicated feed.
(4) Corner to USA though... 1.33am BST 20 mins More tempo in the American play now, but Belgium intercept again, and Mirallas torments them down the Belgian right flank before hitting a low cross in that's hoofed safely clear.
(5) As time ticked away, however, Leicester's frustration grew, and they began to resort to hoofing the ball towards the visitors' penalty area.
(6) It consisted of an underdeveloped humerus, a duplicated ulna, several carpal bones, a partially duplicated metacarpal bone and three digits with three hoofs.
(7) Regular hoof care twice a year reduced the udder disease rate.
(8) More often than not it's passed around at the back for a while, then eventually hoofed witlessly up one of the flanks, where any slim chance of creating bother is immediately lost.
(9) Neuer hoofs a long ball upfield, straight down the middle.
(10) The playmaker hoofs a wild shot many yards over the bar.
(11) The analytical results indicated that a lipid fraction from all of these sources contained ceramide, galactose, galactosamine, sulfate, and sialic acid in equimolar amounts, and that the fractions were similar to the ungulic acid isolated earlier from a horse's hoof.
(12) Information concerning soundness, return to intended purpose, and cosmetic appearance of the limb and hoof was obtained.
(13) He hoofs the ball upfield, David Silva keeps it in play on the touchline, skips inside and sends a diagonal ball into the penalty area for Aguero to chase.
(14) The contact area may be changed if the heel of the hoof is compressible under load or if the usually non-supportive sole of the hoof is involved in ground contact.
(15) A rabbit antiserum against bovine hoof prekeratin was used to immunohistochemically stain the intermediate filaments of biliary epithelium and was shown to stain more than 90% of the cells in the isolated cell population.
(16) Hoof alterations are only painful in cases, where the corium is irritated.
(17) Squamous cell carcinoma of the hoof wall, with resultant invasion of the right hind distal phalanx, was identified in a 15-year-old Thoroughbred stallion.
(18) Cow differences were not significant for hoof growth but were for a few wear rates.
(19) Keratin filament polypeptides were purified from calf hoof stratum corneum with the aim of studying the in vitro assembly process and determining structural parameters of reconstituted filaments.
(20) Whereupon Gove went back into his customary role of baiting Hunt for making up Labour's education policy on the hoof.
Subungual
Definition:
(a.) Under the nail or hoof.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subungual hair penetration appears to be much less common.
(2) Roentgenologic examination is indicated in the differential clinical diagnosis of any subungual mass.
(3) Pterygium inversum unguis (PIU) is a digital anomaly characterized by adherence of the subungueal tissue to the ventral surface of the distal nail plates.
(4) A marked predilection for palms, soles, and subungual locations was displayed.
(5) The authors believe that patients presenting with a subungual hematoma involving greater than one half of the nail surface and a fracture of the distal phalanx should have the nail lifted and the nail bed explored and repaired.
(6) (1) Proximal white subungual onychomycosis or superficial white onychomycosis, especially of the fingernails, is present.
(7) Acral melanoma occurs in the volar surface of the hands, feet, fingers, toes and subungual sites.
(8) The primary lesion arose from the plantar or palmar skin in 25 patients and 9 patients had subungual lesions.
(9) Primary lesions on the arm and thigh did better than lesions of the hand or foot, with plantar and subungual lesions having the least favorable results.
(10) Thirty-three patients with subungual melanoma whose median age was 56 yr underwent treatment between 1950 and 1975.
(11) A much larger proportion of melanomas in Hispanics occurred on the palms, soles, and in subungual regions.
(12) Factors unrelated to survival included sex of the patient, site (volar vs. subungual), histology, and treatment with amputation.
(13) In proximal subungual onychomycosis, the fungus infects the cuticle and eponychium to reach the matrix where it becomes enclosed into the nail plate substance.
(14) The incidence of subungual exostosis accounted for 4.6% of all bone tumor.
(15) In contrast to Caucasians, Japanese people have a relatively high incidence of malignant melanoma in the oral cavity and volar-subungual skin.
(16) On conducting a literature search, we were unable to find any studies that investigated the association between subungual hematomas, fractures, and the presence of an occult laceration of the nail bed requiring repair.
(17) Comparison is also made between melanomas arising on the dorsal non-subungual surface of the hand and those on the face, a region with an equivalent surface area and similar sun exposure.
(18) Subungual basal cell cancers are extremely rare, and a case is presented herein.
(19) We report a case of dyskeratotic subungual tumor in a 28-year-old woman.
(20) Light and electron microscopic studies of the subungual tumors were made.