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  2. Digit (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    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. List of human anatomical regions - Wikipedia

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    the digital/phalangeal region encompassing the toes. The great toe is referred to as the hallux. The regions of the upper limbs, from superior to inferior, are the axillary region encompassing the armpit, the brachial region encompassing the upper arm, the antecubital region encompassing the front of the elbow,

  4. Nail (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    A nail is a protective plate characteristically found at the tip of the digits (fingers and toes) of all primates, corresponding to the claws in other tetrapod animals. . Fingernails and toenails are made of a tough rigid protein called alpha-keratin, a polymer also found in the claws, hooves and horns of ver

  5. Toe - Wikipedia

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    Human toes A woman's toes decorated with nail polish and henna, and wearing a metti on the second toe, for her wedding. There are normally five toes present on each human foot. Each toe consists of three phalanx bones, the proximal, middle, and distal, with the exception of the big toe (Latin: hallux). For a minority of people, the little toe ...

  6. Phalanx bone - Wikipedia

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    Three phalanges are present on each finger and toe, with the exception of the thumb and big toe, which possess only two. The middle and far phalanges of the fourth and [citation needed] fifth toes are often fused together (symphalangism). [1] [2] The phalanges of the hand are commonly known as the finger bones. The phalanges of the foot differ ...

  7. Doctors Explain the Real Reason Fingers Get Pruney in Water - AOL

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    “When our fingers and toes are submerged in water, the sympathetic nervous system triggers the blood vessels in our fingers and toes to constrict, causing skin wrinkles,” explains Ashley ...

  8. Thumb - Wikipedia

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    The second and third toes are partly syndactylous, united by skin at the top joint while the two separate nails serve as hair combs. The fourth and fifth toes are the largest of the hind foot. [15] Koalas have five toes on their fore and hind feet with sharp curved claws except for the first toe of the hind foot. The first and second toes of ...

  9. Finger - Wikipedia

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    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 ...