When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Digit (anatomy) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_(anatomy)

    Some languages have different names for hand and foot digits (English: respectively "finger" and "toe", German: "Finger" and "Zeh", French: "doigt" and "orteil").. In other languages, e.g. Arabic, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Tagalog, Turkish, Bulgarian, and Persian, there are no specific one-word names for fingers and toes; these are called "digit of the hand" or ...

  3. Finger - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger

    The muscle bulks that move each finger may be partly blended, and the tendons may be attached to each other by a net of fibrous tissue, preventing completely free movement. Although each finger seems to move independently, moving one finger also moves the other fingers slightly which is called finger interdependence or finger enslaving. [14 ...

  4. Finger numbering - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_numbering

    The first finger is an ambiguous term in the English language due to two competing finger numbering systems that can be used. It might refer to either the thumb or the index finger, depending on the context. The second finger is another ambiguous term in English. It might refer to either the index finger or the middle finger, also dependent on ...

  5. Finger (unit) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(unit)

    Finger is also the name of a longer unit of length, used historically in cloth measurement, to mean one eighth of a yard or 4 ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ inches. [8] [10] (114.3 mm) Again, which finger and whose finger, is not defined. These units have no legal status but remain in use for 'rough and ready' comparisons.

  6. Thumb - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb

    The precision grip is when the intermediate and distal phalanges ("fingertips") and the thumb press against each other. Examples of a precision grip are writing with a pencil, opening a jar with the fingertips alone, and gripping a ball (only if the ball is not tight against the palm). Thumb and index finger during pad-to-pad precision grasping ...

  7. Hand - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand

    A hand is a prehensile, multi-fingered appendage located at the end of the forearm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs.A few other vertebrates such as the koala (which has two opposable thumbs on each "hand" and fingerprints extremely similar to human fingerprints) are often described as having "hands" instead of paws on their front limbs.

  8. Complete Guide To Finger Tattoos + 40 Designs You Don ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/complete-guide-finger...

    Popular design choices include names, dates, butterflies, and hearts. ... Nowadays, the significance of finger tattoos depends on each person. The designs are often chosen for sentimental reasons ...

  9. Fingerprint - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint

    When a finger touches or rolls onto a surface, the elastic skin deforms. The quantity and direction of the pressure applied by the user, the skin conditions and the projection of an irregular 3D object (the finger) onto a 2D flat plane introduce distortions, noise, and inconsistencies in the captured fingerprint image.