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Crossed fingers. To cross one's fingers is a hand gesture commonly used to wish for luck.Early Christians used the gesture to implore the protection of the Holy Cross. [1] The gesture is referred to by the common expressions "cross your fingers", "keep your fingers crossed", or just "fingers crossed".
The goal of this procedure is to create a wide first web space and to minimise the cleft in the hand. The index digit will be transferred to the ulnar side of the cleft. Simultaneously a correction of index malrotation and deviation is performed. [6] To minimise the cleft, it is necessary to fix together the metacarpals which used to border the ...
The spiders in the genus can grow to have a leg span of 13 to 18 cm (5 to 7 in). Their body length ranges from 17 to 48 mm (43 ⁄ 64 to 1 + 57 ⁄ 64 in). [4] [5] While some other araneomorph spiders have a longer leg span, the largest Phoneutria species have the longest body and the greatest body weight in this group. [6]
[5] [7] Typhoid is spread by eating or drinking food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person. [8] Risk factors include limited access to clean drinking water and poor sanitation. [2] Those who have not yet been exposed to it and ingest contaminated drinking water or food are most at risk for developing symptoms. [7]
Envenomation symptoms observed following bites by these spiders are very similar. The bite is initially very painful, due to the size of the fangs penetrating the skin. [15] Puncture marks and local bleeding are also usually visible. If substantial envenomation occurs, symptoms generally occur within minutes and progress rapidly.
Fear spread among the population; hitchhiking by young women dropped sharply. [112] Pressure mounted on law enforcement agencies, [ 113 ] but the scarcity of physical evidence severely hampered them. Police would not provide reporters with the little information that was available for fear of compromising the investigation. [ 114 ]
The middle finger is still used though, and it is considered more insulting. Another variation of the middle finger is used, where all the fingers but the middle one are spread wide while moving the hand back and forth in the axis the middle finger creates. In this gesture, the thumb sometimes touches the middle finger.
Kealia Ohai Watt (/ k eɪ ˈ l iː ə / kay-ə-LEE-ə; born Kealia Mae Ohai; January 31, 1992) is an American former professional soccer player who played for the Chicago Red Stars and the Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).