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Paw


Definition:

  • (n.) The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
  • (n.) The hand.
  • (v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
  • (v. t.) To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.
  • (v. t.) To scrape or beat with the forefoot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In pentobarbital-anesthetized rats or in perfused hind paw of rats, the potentiation induced by cocaine and tripelennamine was more marked to norepinephrine than to epinephrine, but an inverse relation between norepinephrine and epinephrine was observed in the potentiation by I and II.
  • (2) Both face and paw receptive fields are unions of a certain set of skin areas called compartments.
  • (3) At both 24 h and 1 week, the inflamed paw showed pronounced supersensitivity to the antinociceptive action of morphine against noxious pressure.
  • (4) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
  • (5) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
  • (6) In the spinalized preparation, steady-state and nonsteady-state responses have an equal likelihood of emerging from the initial cycles of a paw-shake response, suggesting that regular coupling of joint oscillations is not planned by pattern-generating networks within lumbosacral segments.
  • (7) The spinal ascending pathways responsible for neuronal ventrobasal (VB) thalamic responses elicited by joint stimulation of the posterior paw were determined in arthritic rats used as a model of experimental pain.
  • (8) The response was composed of an isometric phase, during which the body weight was shifted from the stimulated limb to the opposite forelimb while the stimulated limb was gently pushed backwards, and a movement phase during which the stimulated paw actually accomplished the placing reaction.
  • (9) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
  • (10) Carrageenin-induced inflammatory oedema of the rat paw was considerably inhibited at i.v.
  • (11) The goalkeeper then had to paw out another Carroll header.
  • (12) In inflammatory studies, 1-4 showed inhibition of formaldehyde-induced paw swelling (edema).
  • (13) Hence, Paw was a major determinant of oxygenation, although a PEEP greater than Pflex appeared necessary to optimize oxygenation at a constant Paw.
  • (14) A comparison has been made between liposome-encapsulated and free indomethacin for their anti-inflammatory activities in the carrageenan paw oedema test in rats, and their inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation induced by adenosine 5-diphosphate (ADP) in-vitro.
  • (15) Standard 5-member series of weak electro-cutaneous stimulations of the fore-paw were applied in chronic experiments to two dogs with implanted cortical electrodes.
  • (16) from the 1st to the 3rd day and then each 2nd or 3rd day inhibited paw swelling in adjuvant arthritis of the rat during the time of treatment.
  • (17) It has been shown that under all types of stimulation the latent periods (LP) of nociceptive reactions of paw licking and tail flick were significantly increased, as compared to baseline level, thus suggesting suppression of the pain sensitivity.
  • (18) Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) only partially inhibit the hyperalgesia in the inflammation induced by carrageenin in the hind rat paw, one of the most frequently used nociceptive tests.
  • (19) The models used were (1) carrageenin-induced paw oedema in rats previously depleted of polymorphonuclear cells, (2) carrageenin-induced rat pleurisy and (3) migration of rat peritoneal leucocytes from glass capillary tubes in vitro.
  • (20) AOA and B-H were markedly effective both in scavenging the reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated and in inhibiting lipid peroxidation; they also significantly reduced both adjuvant- and adriamycin-induced paw oedema in rats.

Pow


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He best be careful out there, because one of these days, POW, RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
  • (2) Nevertheless, persistent psychiatric sequelae (especially psychoneurosis but also schizophrenia) are the more notable and pervasive for both Pacific World War II POW's and Korean War POW's as seen not only in elevated hospital admission rates but also in VA disability awards and in symptoms reported on the cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire.
  • (3) Examined are a variety of clinical issues in the diagnosis and treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) of former prisoners of war (POWs).
  • (4) Ten drug-free former American prisoners of war (POWs), captured on Bataan and Corregidor by the Japanese in World War II, participated in a study of the relationship between structural brain abnormalities on computerized axial tomographic (CT) scans and sleep electroencephalographic (EEG) findings.
  • (5) Malarial transmission was, however, intense in both groups, though more so in POW.
  • (6) All sera were negative for antibodies to POW virus.
  • (7) The study finds that depressive symptomatology, as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, is elevated in World War II POWs from the Pacific and European theaters and in Korean conflict POWs.
  • (8) Later that day, my father lost all memory of his time as a PoW.
  • (9) Satisfactory estimates of pesticides' fish toxicity are obtained from log POW-dependent QSARs derived using chemicals of similar polarity and reactivity.
  • (10) As assistant bacteriologist and ex-POW he joined the British regimental hospital in Bangkok.
  • (11) But looking back it was a terrible thing to have happened.” Medical staff preserved the POWs’ corpses in formaldehyde for future use by students, but at the end of the war the remains were quickly cremated, as doctors attempted to hide evidence of their crimes.
  • (12) Although POW in fallers was significantly lower at the higher velocity in both joints, the decrease was most prominent in the ankles.
  • (13) However, the subscale fails to distinguish between Pacific and European POW veterans.
  • (14) There is even a carving on a trunk done by German POWs.
  • (15) A random sample of 170 surviving members of the captured Eighth Division of the Australian Army residing in Sydney in 1983 (POWs) was compared with a similar sample of 172 veterans who fought in Southeast Asia during the war but were not imprisoned (non-POWs).
  • (16) To examine the prevalence of long-term physical and emotional consequences of captivity in this population, the authors analyzed medical and psychiatric examination data for 426 former POWs.
  • (17) POWs had more duodenal ulcers than controls but otherwise their physical health was similar, as was their age-adjusted mortality in the post-war years.
  • (18) Dorsiflexion POW production in fallers was the most affected of all the motions (7.5 times less than the control value).
  • (19) On the afternoon of 15 August, hours after the emperor had announced Japan’s surrender, more than a dozen other American POWs held in Fukuoka camps were taken to a mountainside execution site and beheaded.
  • (20) In addition to problems with cognitive deficits and complaints of bodily discomfort, most common among POW survivors were symptoms of suspiciousness, apprehension, confusion, isolation, detachment, and hostility.

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