(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.
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.