plantigrade

How To Use plantigrade In A Sentence

• The veterinarian, however, disputed his point of view, noting that the tracks belonged to a dog of plantigrade characteristics arising from a deformation.
• Hystricids are plantigrade, that is, they place the full sole of the foot on the ground when they walk.
• It was formerly classed with the racoons, which it superficially resembles; and, as Jerdon remarks, it may be considered as a sort of link between the plantigrade and digitigrade carnivora. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• The supposed stegosaurian track Deltapodus Whyte & Romano, 1994 (Middle Jurassic of England) is sauropod-like, elongate and plantigrade, but many blunt-toed, digitigrade, large ornithopod-like footprints (including pedal print cast associated with the manus of Stegopodus Lockley & Hunt, 1998) from the Upper Jurassic of Utah, better fit the stegosaurian foot pattern. Neoceratopsian publications for 2008
• All feet have four digits, each with a heavy and sharp claw, and the posture of these animals is plantigrade.
• A heel raise was not routinely used unless the ankle had not been positioned in a plantigrade position after the change of cast at 4 weeks.
• The legs are short, and the feet are plantigrade and have 5 toes.
• The next thing to observe is, that the disposition of bones in the case of the bear is such that the animal walks in the way that has been called plantigrade. That is to say, all the bones of the fingers, as well as those of the toes, feet, and ankles, rest upon the ground, or help to constitute the “soles.” Our own feet are constructed on a closely similar pattern. But in the majority of living mammalian forms this is not the case. For the majority of mammals are what has been called digitigrade. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
• Because human legs obviously work well for humans, Russell & Séguin proposed that human-like legs would also work for a human-like dinosauroid, and they gave the creature plantigrade feet. Dinosauroids revisited
• The legs are short, and the feet are plantigrade and have 5 toes.