What's the difference between fleshy and hypothenar?
Fleshy
Definition:
(superl.) Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.
(superl.) Human.
(superl.) Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sarcomas (fleshy tumors) were distinguished from carcinoma (crab leg tumors) at the time of Hippocrates.
(2) And when nothing seems off-limits online – not to mention the intimate moments of any celebrity under the sun, or the private photos Jennifer Lawrence makes for her lover’s eyes only – does the proper fleshy privacy of sex with a partner lose its glamour?
(3) Your knees creak, your back aches and your fleshy bits droop more than they used to.
(4) Exposing one's fleshy bits to the gentle caress of the solar furnace has always boasted some distinguished advocates.
(5) One of the most pleasing things in recent years is that it has become easier for us in Britain to get hold of luscious, fleshy Medjool dates.
(6) Analyses of various parts of carpophores of B. edulis, Suillus luteus and Amanita muscaria indicate that in all three species the stalk contains less selenium than the fleshy part of the cap.
(7) His take on spaghetti carbonara is just as playful, the pasta replaced with crunchy strings of palmito , white fleshy palm hearts, a classic Brazilian ingredient.
(8) Three types of trabecula septomarginalis were encountered as previously described by Bortolami in ox: - Mostly (66%), the trabecula septomarginalis is a short and thick fleshy column.
(9) Three patients had passed fleshy material in the urine while in one the diagnosis was established by excretory urography.
(10) And fleshy, human, and deeply subjective stuff it is too.
(11) The consistent features include a fleshy web extending across the anterior aspect of the cubital fossa, absence of the long head of the triceps, limitation of full elbow extension and missing skin creases over the terminal inter-phalangeal joints of the fingers.
(12) M. pterygoideus ventralis lateralis has a well developed 'venter externus' slip which has its thick and fleshy insertion on the outer lateral angular and articular mandible.
(13) On the rare occasions we manage to catch up with him, we find ourselves peering into the sort of face you usually find on banknotes: brisk moustache, chin like a fleshy landslide, eyes so piercing they could blow up the east courtyard's unfinished multi-million-pound toilet block.
(14) The fleshy insertion of the outer slip of M. pseudotemporalis profundus extends ventrally over the dorsolateral surface of the mandible much more than it does in Columba.
(15) A 50-year-old woman had a fleshy lesion in her right buccal maxillary sulcus.
(16) A family is reported in which the mother and 4 of her 6 children are affected by a constellation of abnormalities including mental handicap, abnormal facies, short stature, soft fleshy hands with tapering fingers and skeletal abnormalities.
(17) The amount of S(eq) in the latter products as well as in fruits packed in unsweetened juice equalled that of the fleshy substance of ordinary sucrose-sweetened products.
(18) Therefore, the present study is restricted only to the fleshy leaf extracts [Jindal et al.
(19) This is particularly true of benthic species which conceal themselves by flattened form, fleshy protuberances or protective coloration, or which bury in the sediment or take refuge in burrows.
(20) The deep part arises by large fleshy laminae from the deep surface of the erector spinae aponeurosis.
Hypothenar
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the prominent part of the palm of the hand above the base of the little finger, or a corresponding part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar eminence.
(n.) The hypothenar eminence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subcutaneous thickening, the tenderness on compression and percussion of the hypothenar eminence or Raynaud's phenomenon of the last fingers should arise the suspicion of this syndrome, which will be confirmed by a positive Allen's test, Doppler examination or digitalized angiography.
(2) A radial arch in the hypothenar area of the human palm is an uncommon ridge arrangement.
(3) A study of density of sweat pores in 594 individuals indicated that the average number of pores per cm2 in the hypothenar area was 490.4 for white newborns, 513.6 for black newborns, 652.4 for white children, 629.2 for black children, 519.6 for white adult males, 533.6 for white adult females, 379.2 for black adult males, and 519.2 for black adult females.
(4) In five patients with unilateral wasting of the hand muscles as a result of cervical rib and band, F waves were recorded from the hypothenar muscles following stimulation of the ulnar nerve at the wrist.
(5) The EMG-based ED90 of the adductor pollicis and the hypothenar muscles were 62-65 micrograms.kg-1 compared to the 60 micrograms.kg-1 of the first dorsal interosseous muscle (P < 0.05).
(6) Six points were studied on each side of the body: 2 cm above the eyebrow on the forehead, lateral aspect of the arm at the insertion of the deltoid muscle, midpoint of the ulna, hypothenar eminence in the palm, midpoint of the quadriceps muscle, and midpoint of the antero-medial aspect of the tibia.
(7) The volar surgical approach through the palm is common, but to expose the hook some hypothenar muscles and cardinal ligaments must be divided.
(8) The aim of this study was to describe a simple electrophysiological method to detect the anomalous communication innervating hypothenar and thenar muscles.
(9) In patients with myasthenia gravis neuromuscular transmission has been tested in individual hypothenar and thenar motor units using trains of near threshold electrical stimuli delivered to the motor nerve.
(10) A study of the frequency of the radial arch in the hypothenar area has confirmed that there are bimanual and sex differences, and has shown that racial differences in the frequency exist between Whites, Indians, Negros, and a Coloured (mixed racial origin) population.
(11) The lesion was more severe in extensor digitorum brevis neurons than in thenar neurons, while the hypothenar ones were least affected.
(12) A case of intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia in the hypothenar eminence of a 23-year-old female fencer is described.
(13) Increased vascularity in hypothenar eminence area was seen in three arteriograms.
(14) Structural differences found in the manus of fur seals and sea lions include: (1) reduction in size of the ulnar side of the carpus and a radial shift in the length-order of the digits, (2) development of musculature in the antebrachial fascia which attaches to the caudal margin of the flipper, (3) orientation of the radial side of the manus dorsal and radial to the rest of the hand, (4) increased range of possible midcarpal movement and in deviational mobility at the first and fifth digits, (5) attachment of forearm musculature onto radial digits and (6) well-developed hypothenar muscles and absence of thenar muscles.
(15) Anatomic variations in the hypothenar muscles were significant, the most notable being the absence of flexor digiti minimi in eight (38%) of the specimens.
(16) We searched for single gene effects determining certain palmar and plantar patterns - two interdigital and the hypothenar areas, palmar main line sequence, and hallucal pattern.
(17) These arteries run completely superficial to flexor muscles of the forearm and are terminated by branches running above the thenar and hypothenar eminences, respectively.
(18) This study emphasized branching patterns of the DBUN to the hypothenar muscles and the interrelationship of variations in hypothenar muscle anatomy and DBUN branching patterns.
(19) A similar chain of events characterizes infections of the thenar and hypothenar eminences.
(20) Among the hypothenar muscle, the m. abductor digiti minimi and the m. flexor digiti minimi brevis are fused with each other, and their supplying nerves frequently form a loop in these muscles (intrahypothenar loop), whereas the m. opponens digiti minimi is separated from the others and receives a separate nerve branch.