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  2. Dermatoglyphics - Wikipedia

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    Dermatoglyphics (from Ancient Greek derma, "skin", and glyph, "carving") is the scientific study of fingerprints, lines, mounts and shapes of hands, as distinct from the superficially similar pseudoscience of palmistry. Dermatoglyphics also refers to the making of naturally occurring ridges on certain body parts, namely palms, fingers, soles ...

  3. Thumb - Wikipedia

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    Having a skeleton of phalanges, joined by hinge-like joints that provide flexion toward the palm of the hand. Having a dorsal surface that features hair and a nail, and a hairless palmar aspect with fingerprint ridges. The thumb contrasts with each of the other four fingers by being the only one that:

  4. Triphalangeal thumb - Wikipedia

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    Triphalangeal thumb. Triphalangeal thumb (TPT) is a congenital malformation where the thumb has three phalanges instead of two. The extra phalangeal bone can vary in size from that of a small pebble to a size comparable to the phalanges in non-thumb digits. The true incidence of the condition is unknown, but is estimated at 1:25,000 live births ...

  5. Knuckle - Wikipedia

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    Knuckle. The knuckles are the joints of the fingers. The word is cognate to similar words in other Germanic languages, such as the Dutch "knokkel" (knuckle) or German "Knöchel" (ankle), i.e., Knöchlein, the diminutive of the German word for bone (Knochen). Anatomically, it is said that the knuckles consist of the metacarpophalangeal [1] (MCP ...

  6. Fingerprint - Wikipedia

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    Fingerprint identification, known as dactyloscopy, [30] ridgeology, [31] or hand print identification, is the process of comparing two instances of friction ridge skin impressions (see minutiae), from human fingers or toes, or even the palm of the hand or sole of the foot, to determine whether these impressions could have come from the same ...

  7. Digit (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    Humans normally have five digits on each extremity. Each digit is formed by several bones called phalanges, surrounded by soft tissue. Human fingers normally have a nail at the distal phalanx. The phenomenon of polydactyly occurs when extra digits are present; fewer digits than normal are also possible, for instance in ectrodactyly.

  8. Index finger - Wikipedia

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    Anatomical terminology. [edit on Wikidata] The index finger (also referred to as forefinger, [1] first finger, [2] second finger, [3] pointer finger, trigger finger, digitus secundus, digitus II, and many other terms) is the second digit of a human hand. It is located between the thumb and the middle finger. It is usually the most dextrous and ...

  9. Whorl - Wikipedia

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    In a fingerprint, a whorl is each ridge arranged circularly around a central point on the finger. In histopathologic architecture, a whorled pattern consists of multiple concentric objects, or a spiral-shaped pattern. Bone tissue is shown. For mollusc whorls, the body whorl in a mollusc shell is the most recently formed whorl of a spiral shell ...

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