(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.
Saki
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia. They have large ears, and a long hairy tail which is not prehensile.
(n.) The alcoholic drink of Japan. It is made from rice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saki's mother was killed by a cow when he was a child.
(2) It's the gift of an exceptional writer to make the reader feel the way I feel about Saki: that maybe only I really understand him.
(3) Greece Aligned to Eurovision's Balkan Bloc Not only is Saki Rouvas's This is Our Night marvellously, teeth-grindingly, competition-winningly vapid, but more importantly, Greece is the epicentre of the many-tentacled Balkan Bloc.
(4) Hiroyuki Saotome Executive chef of Saki, London "The [Michelin] selection is skewed toward more contemporary and creative Japanese restaurants [more appealing to non-Japanese customers] with a wide selection of wine.
(5) Outside Byzantium Café, Saki, who is 72 and remembers the declaration of Cypriot independence ("You British knew what was going to happen"), is relatively sanguine.
(6) Saki (Hector Hugh Munro, 1870-1916) was raised by his strict, dour aunts and grandmother, and was gay but closeted all his life – for good reason, since homosexual acts between men were still illegal.
(7) A multichromosomal distribution of rDNA was demonstrated in the tree shrew, lemur, saki, and marmoset.
(8) The smaller-bodied atelids (Callicebus, Aotus) may use insects or leaves opportunistically, but pitheciins (saki-uakaris) specialize on seeds as their major protein source.
(9) Saki, a big-hearted raconteur who runs Byzantium café, told me that you could nuke the whole of Europe and the two things that would survive would be Greeks and cockroaches.
(10) In vitro precipitation of haemoglobin Saki upon heat or in the presence of chemicals is compared to the stability of haemoglobin A and haemoglobin S.
(11) It has the advantage over a recently published PCR technique (R. Higuchi, B. Krummel, and R. Saki (1988) Nucleic Acids Res.
(12) Conservative therapy included electrophoresis of residues of the Saki Lake therapeutic mud, followed by ultrasonic therapy.
(13) What's changed, though, is the level of hardship for Greek people, which ricochets back to their family in London, despite the fact that, as Saki says, "the Greeks are very proud, if they're hungry, they won't tell you about it".
(14) Evolutionary stages in sexual dichromatism in sakis and other primates are noted.
(15) He grew up, a homosexual with paedophile instincts, in the hot-house cultural climate that nurtured many late-Victorian literary men, notably Oscar Wilde and the Aubrey Beardsley of The Yellow Book , as well as Edwardians such as HH Munro ("Saki") and Max Beerbohm .
(16) Hybridization in stiu was used to identify the chromosomes that carry rDNA in representative lower primates, including the baboons, Papio cynocephalus and Papio hamadryas; the colobus monkey, Colobus polykomos; the tree shrew, Tupaia glis; the lemur, Lemur fulvis; the saki, Pithecia pithecia; the marmoset, Saguinus nigricollis, and the spider monkey, Ateles geoffroyi.
(17) Recognized species of sakis, South American monkeys of genus Pithecia (Cebidae), are P. hirsuta Spix, P. monachus E. Geoffroy, P. albicans Gray, P. pithecia Linnaeus.
(18) "President Bush said he understood us," said her mother, Sakie Yokota.
(19) Saki says things are also hard for the middle-aged – his nephews who run a frozen food business "are suffering because people are just buying what they need to stay alive."
(20) Two methods were used to determine fruit hardness during a field study of two sympatric primates, the black spider monkey (Ateles paniscus) and the bearded saki monkey (Chiropotes satanas) in Surinam.