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digitigrade [ˈdɪdʒɪtɪˌgreɪd] adj (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) (of dogs, cats, horses, etc.) walking so that only the toes touch the ground n
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| Clark and his coworkers observed that the joint between the toes and foot could not have flexed enough to make possible the digitigrade movement, or toe-walking, seen in birds and some dinosaurs. in the development of walking, for example, Forssberg(3) argues that digitigrade walking gives way to plantigrade walking as higher centers of the CNS mature. [57] The early foot contact pattern seen in infancy resembles a digitigrade pattern. |
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