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  2. Span (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A span is the distance measured by a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger. In ancient times, a span was considered to be half a cubit. Sometimes the distinction is made between the great span or full span (thumb to little finger) and little span or short span (thumb to index finger, or index finger to little ...

  3. Interphalangeal joints of the hand - Wikipedia

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    Joints of the hand, X-ray Interphalangeal ligaments and phalanges. Right hand. Deep dissection. Posterior (dorsal) view. The PIP joint exhibits great lateral stability. Its transverse diameter is greater than its antero-posterior diameter and its thick collateral ligaments are tight in all positions during flexion, contrary to those in the metacarpophalangeal joint.

  4. List of human-based units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Condylos - middle joint of finger; Cun - width of the human thumb, at the knuckle; Dactylos - Ancient Greek finger breadth; Digit - length of a human finger Digitus - Ancient Roman digit; Etzba - fingerbreadth; Fathom - the distance between the fingertips of a human's outstretched arms; Finger; Fistmele - the measure of a clenched hand with the ...

  5. Joints of hand - Wikipedia

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    The carpometacarpal joint connects the carpal bones to the metacarpus or metacarpal bones which are joined at the intermetacarpal articulations. In the fingers, finally, are the metacarpophalangeal joints (including the knuckles) between the metacarpal bones and the phalanges or finger bones which are interconnected by the interphalangeal joints

  6. Multivariate kernel density estimation - Wikipedia

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    The figure shows the joint density estimate that results from using the automatically selected bandwidth. Matlab script for the example. Type the following commands in Matlab after downloading and saving the function kde2d.m in the current directory.

  7. Kapandji score - Wikipedia

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    Radial side of the proximal phalanx of the index finger: 2 Radial side of the middle phalanx of the index finger: 3 Tip of the index finger: 4 Tip of the middle finger: 5 Tip of the ring finger: 6 Tip of the little finger: 7 Distal interphalangeal joint crease of the little finger: 8 Proximal interphalangeal joint crease of the little finger: 9

  8. A man's finger length could reveal if he's a good date - AOL

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    Forget his eyes. When looking for the perfect date, check out his hands. A new study says men with masculinized digit ratios show greater courtship-related consumption. In simpler terms, a man's ...

  9. Hand (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The hand, sometimes also called a handbreadth or handsbreadth, is an anthropic unit, originally based on the breadth of a male human hand, either with or without the thumb, [2] or on the height of a clenched fist. [9] On surviving Ancient Egyptian cubit-rods, the royal cubit is divided into seven palms of four digits or fingers each. [10]