Uncaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.

The type species for the genus is Uncaria guianensis.

Uncaria sinensis is common in China.

( Note: " Cat's Claw " is also used to refer to Uncaria tomentosa, a woody vine found in the tropical jungles of South and Central America )

It is botanically related to the genera Corynanthe, Cinchona and Uncaria and shares some similar biochemistry.

The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee ( Coffea ), quinine ( Cinchona ), and gambier ( Uncaria ), the medicinal ipecacuanha ( Carapichea_ipecacuanha ), and the horticulturally valuable madder ( Rubia ), west Indian jasmine ( Ixora ), partridgeberry ( Mitchella ), Morinda, Gardenia, and Pentas.

It refers to the hooks, formed from reduced branches, that Uncaria vines use to cling to other vegetation.

* Uncaria tomentosa ( Cat's Claw )— in an in vitro experiment with rats, it inhibited formation of brain beta amyloid deposits, which have been connected to Alzheimer's disease.

`` Mr. Gross, your report says that ' our function is investigative and advisory and does not in any way derogate from or prejudice Mr. Bang-Jensen's rights as a staff member.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

He is a member both of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society ; ;

Carleton is a member of the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference and abides by its eligibility rules.

Mr. Devey is a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and is chairman of the Electronic Industries Association Committee on Printed and Modular Components.

He is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a senior member of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

On those rare occasions when a faculty member on tenure is not meeting the standards of the institution, the president must also bear the ultimate burden of decision and action.

This function is staffed by engineers chosen for their technical competence and who have the title, member of the technical staff.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

Each pin is individually sprung to a tensioning member which is driven outwardly in the slot.

But Judge Marvin Jones, senior member of the Court, is an elderly gentleman who lives at the nearby Metropolitan Club and desires to walk to work.

Yet Dartmouth still is the dominant member of the Intercollegiate Ski Union, which includes the winter sports colleges of Canada as well as those of this country.

It is still, however, the junior member of the League, if not in years at least in the catching up it has had to do.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;

Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.

India is the most populous United Nations member with more than 400,000,000 inhabitants.

Mining is secretary-treasurer of the local and Shiflett is a member of its executive committee.

She is in Madame Tussard's Waxworks in London, a princess of the Kiowa tribe and an honorary colonel in many states.

Zainab was the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Houara ( a Masmuda tribe ), who is said to be from Kairouan in origin.

This is another area influenced by native Indians, particularly by the Guaraní tribe.

The word " Aymāq " is Mongolian meaning " tribe " or " grazing territory ".

The Arawaks inhabited the islands until the 15th century when they were displaced by the more aggressive Caribs, a tribe from the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea is named.

Another likely ancestor of the banjo is the akonting, a spike folk lute played by the Jola tribe of Senegambia, and the ubaw-akwala of the Igbo.

The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe, originally part of the Chatti, that lived around the Rhine delta, in the area that the Romans called Batavia and that is currently the Netherlands, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.

The description of Benjamin being born after the arrival in Canaan is thought by some scholars to refer to the tribe of Benjamin coming into existence by branching from the Joseph group after the tribe had settled in Canaan.

Such a connection is possible if the original form of Boii belonged to a tribe of Proto-Indo-European speakers long before the time of the historic Boii.

Their memory also survives in the modern regional names of Bohemia ( Boiohaemum ), a mixed-language form from boio-and Proto-Germanic * haimaz, " home ": " home of the Boii ," and ' Bayern ', Bavaria, which is derived from the Germanic Baiovarii tribe ( Germ.

" This section is a " covenantal land grant ": Yahweh, as king, is issuing each tribe its territory.

It is possible that the Roman term basterna, denoting a type of wagon or litter, is derived from the name of this tribe, which was known, like many Germanic tribes, to travel with a wagon-train for their families.

The tribe of Levi is exempted from military service and therefore not included in the census totals.

The boundaries of the land are spelled out ; the land is to be divided under the supervision of Eleazar, Joshua, and twelve princes, one of each tribe.

In the superscription of the Old Greek version, Habakkuk is called the son of Joshua of the tribe of Levi.

In Civilization V: Gods & Kings, Boudicca is the leader of the Celtic tribe.

It was directed against the Yakoma tribe, of which it is estimated that 20, 000 persons fled during this period.

Cannibalism ( from Caníbales, the Spanish name for the Carib people, a West Indies tribe formerly well known for their practice of cannibalism ) is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

A well known case of mortuary cannibalism is that of the Fore tribe in New Guinea which resulted in the spread of the prion disease kuru.

Exocannibalism is the consumption of a person from outside the community, usually as a celebration of victory against a rival tribe.

The name čeština " Czech " is derived from a Slavic tribe of Czechs ( Čech, pl.

According to a legend, it is derived from the Forefather Čech, who brought the tribe of Czechs into its land.