What's the difference between talon and unguis?

Talon


Definition:

  • (n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.
  • (n.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
  • (n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.
  • (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It angled and twisted, talons probing down on a swallow.
  • (2) When Adele recently collected her Grammys with long talons painted on both sides (pale on top, pillar box red beneath), it seemed even nail art had gone truly mainstream.
  • (3) There are three typical types of manicure: the regular polish; the gel or acrylic spatula-shaped talons beloved of the tabloid Wag; and the super-cool, bejewelled nail art more commonly seen in either east London or Japan.
  • (4) Talon for Twitter (£1.21) Looking for an alternative to the official Twitter app for Android?
  • (5) What was first diagnosed as an endodontic lesion was, in all probability, a primary periodontal lesion caused by the advance of bacteria from the gingival crevice to the apex along the radicular groove between the main tooth and the talon cusp.
  • (6) However, the unique feature of the TALON Catalog may be its machine-readable form which offers the potential for quantitative analyses of health sciences library collections.
  • (7) In that 42 tonnes of bait in the proposed eradication program, there will actually be less than 1kg – 840g – of brodifacoum, a poison in common pesticides like Talon which is found in most supermarkets.
  • (8) The beak made from what looked to be a bear claw, the feet with their worn-down, pedestrian talons: I mean, please!
  • (9) #Pistorius May 8, 2014 Wolmarans says the ammunition used was not Black Talon bullets , as previously heard , but ranger bullets.
  • (10) Plath was killed by what she described as "the owl's talons clenching and constricting my heart".
  • (11) Only recently have reports of talon cusps on primary teeth appeared.
  • (12) The methods of treatment of talon cusps are reviewed.
  • (13) Day 28: 8 May 2014 Ballistics expert Thomas ‘Wollie’ Wolmarans, told the court that the ammunition used to shoot Steenkamp was not Black Talon bullets, as previously heard , but ranger bullets.
  • (14) The prevalence of talon cusp was found to be 0.6 per 1000, and for ankyloglossia 8.3 per 1000.
  • (15) I spoke to Avery the day after he had travelled to Margate to admire Jeremy Deller’s painting of an enormous hen harrier grabbing a Range Rover in its talons, which Avery saw as a powerful statement about class-based power still defining what lived and died in the British countryside.
  • (16) Clinical observations suggest that the incidence of talon cusps in the primary dentition may be not lower than that in the permanent dentition in Chinese children.
  • (17) He noted the Black Talon brand of ammunition was often used for self-defence because while it caused significant damage to a human target, it was less likely to penetrate the first target and hit other people.
  • (18) Captain Mangena, the state ballistic expert, maintains the bullets were Black Talons .
  • (19) CCI's Blazer JSP bullet (developed in conjunction with the UK distributor, Edgar Brothers) is "specifically designed for bone penetration in head shots and to create maximum expansion inside the cranium without exiting"; and then there is Winchester's Black Talon.
  • (20) An unusual example of anterior tooth fusion is presented in which the involved tooth had one crown, one talon cusp, two roots, and three root canals.

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.

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