(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.
Unguis
Definition:
(n.) The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.
(n.) One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
(n.) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; called also ungula.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intracellular and extracellular electrodes were used to study spontaneous and impulse-linked release of transmitter at locust retractor unguis nerve-muscle synapses.2.
(2) Pterygium inversum unguis (PIU) is a digital anomaly characterized by adherence of the subungueal tissue to the ventral surface of the distal nail plates.
(3) These strongly suggest that the fibrous structure of organic matrix assists the orientation of apatite crystals in Lingula unguis shell.
(4) Sterigmatocystin production by A. unguis is reported for the first time.
(5) The amino acid sequence of the beta chain of hemerythrin from Lingula unguis was determined.
(6) An unusual case of pterygium unguis involving all the nails is reported and the possible causes of such onychopathy are briefly discussed.
(7) The retractor unguis motor neurons, synergistic to the depressors, are, like them, excited by ventral contact but, like the levator, are inhibited by afferents which can signal the end of the stance phase.
(8) However, while the glutamate uptake in the CI and SETi nerve endings of the slow 135cd is comparable to the high-affinity uptake of glutamate in the fast excitor tibiae (FETi) nerve endings of the fast retractor unguis muscle, a high-affinity uptake of glutamate was only demonstrated in the glia of both types of nerve endings.
(9) E. unguis converted ML-236B to ML-236A with a yield of over 90%.
(10) Three cases of dystrophia unguis mediana canaliformis are presented herein.
(11) Approximately 1,600 fungal strains were tested for ability to convert compactin (ML-236B) to ML-236A and Emericella unguis IFO 8087 was found to be the most active.
(12) During an 18-month period, four patients with scleroderma were found to have nail findings suggestive or pterygium inversum unguis, a recently described condition.
(13) It is possible that abnormalities of this structure may result in onycholysis, pachyonychia congenita, and pterygium inversum unguis.
(14) As a result, subungual clavi, unguis incarnatus, unguis convolutus, or laterally turning onychogryposis like a cork-screw develop.
(15) Lingula unguis shell yields a diffuse small angle X-ray scattering which is caused mainly by the scattering from particles of apatite.
(16) This made it possible to investigate three species of the Aspergillus nidulans group: A. nidulans, A. unguis, A. variecolor.
(17) However, interpretation of these amplitude distributions was complicated by the effect on the extracellular recordings of the complex structural organization of the retractor unguis nerve terminal with its spatially distinct transmitter release sites extending over distances of 15-30 mum.3.
(18) The brachiopoda, Lingula unguis, has a pair of anterior adductors located in the center of the shell.
(19) A 35-year-old man with long-standing lepromatous leprosy and history of recurrent, severe type 2 lepra reaction was found to have pterygium unguis and destruction of the fingernails.
(20) The toxins act as non-competitive inhibitors at quisqualate-type glutamatergic receptors on a metathoracic retractor unguis nerve-muscle preparation of Schistocerca gregaria.