Sentence examples for modified feet from inspiring English sources

Some lizards have highly modified feet for climbing smooth surfaces, while others are completely arboreal, with feet that act like pincers to grasp twigs.

A modified foot-fault test was employed to measure forelimb placement dysfunction [49].

Foot-fault test: Mice were tested for placement dysfunction of forelimbs with the modified foot-fault test.

Despite the unevenness of the ground, the theropod (Grallator trackmaker) did not modify foot posture or adopt a more stable, wide-gauge gait.

Long tentacles (modified tube feet) reach out over the sand to pick up small particles of food; other tube feet have respiratory and sensory (not locomotive) functions.

Both raised the point that the technology that has enabled Herr to climb again (using modified prosthetic feet for climbing) is only possible to a wealthy elite; Herr's limbs would cost $120,000 to buy, but are only possible because of $43m in research and development.

At a public meeting there in January, Chemical Safety Board Chairwoman Vanessa Sutherland explained how an explosion in the refinery's hydrocarbon-choked electrostatic precipitator, a pollution-control device, had sent airborne an 80,000-pound piece of debris, which narrowly missed a tank of modified HF 80 feet away.

The proximal femur of each specimen was also dissected and clamped to the testing frame, while the foot and ankle were placed in a modified ankle foot orthosis (AFO) and secured to the custom-designed aluminum stand using a strap (Fig. 1).

Oracle was found to have illegally modified 45-foot catamarans in warm-up regattas.

The specimens were mounted to a test apparatus that was comprised of a modified ankle-foot orthosis which held the ankle and rearfoot in fixed neutral position.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is not as amusing as John Oliver, and unlike the summer film "Rampage," its new gene editing report features neither The Rock nor a genetically modified, 30-foot wolf.