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Example sentences for: paw

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cat's paw to be made a tool or instrument to accomplish the purpose of another: an allusion to the story of a monkey that made use of a cat's paw to scratch a roasted chestnut out of the fire.
The severity of arthritis in each paw was graded according to an established scoring system [ 3, 5] as follows: 0, normal; 1, mild erythema and/or swelling, usually in one or two toes; 2, moderate erythema and/or swelling of the paw; 3, more diffuse erythema; 4, severe erythema and swelling affecting the entire paw (maximum score for the four paws = 16).
For our simian ancestors in the trees, falling from branch to branch was a normal mode of locomotion, but you had better have a prehensile paw for grabbing the crucial limb at the last moment.
decreased threshold to paw withdrawal following probing with non-noxious mechanical stimuli) consisted of measuring the withdrawal threshold of the paw ipsilateral to the site of nerve injury in response to probing with a series of calibrated von Frey filaments.
For measuring the cytokine production, peeled joint tissues from the upper portion of ankle to the middle of the paw were ground by homogenizer in the equal volume of the lysis buffer (100mmol/l potassuim phosphate, pH 7.8 and 0.2% Triton-X 100).