What's the difference between hypothenar and pinkie?
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.
Pinkie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Eagle has since said that her pinkie wiggle was "commenting on the size of GDP growth".
(2) The meningeal irritation was not present, but lumbar puncture showed slightly pinky CSF with normal pressure.
(3) By then, of course, Rich and his business partner, Pincus 'Pinky' Green, had long since fled to Zug, and were well on their way to making the money back through a series of sanctions-busting oil shipments to South Africa and other 'pariah' states.
(4) In March 2002, a pre-buzzcut Justin Timberlake broke up with a pre-breakdown Britney Spears after a three-year relationship which saw them blossom from perma-smiling Mouseketeers to pin-ups for young love (they used to call each other Stinky and Pinky!).
(5) Call me old fashioned, but I'd rather not see high-level female politicians pinkie-wiggling at the prime minister.
(6) Years ago I went out to a swanky birthday dinner, with set menu, which included some flat bits of pinky slime.
(7) You can imagine Alec Guinness walking in at any minute, or Pinkie from Brighton Rock.
(8) The image of that gingery, bony, pinky-whitey person on the cover with the liquid mercury collar bone was – for one particular young moonage daydreamer – the image of planetary kin, of a close imaginary cousin and companion of choice.
(9) I see Makka Pakka's sponge and soap, the Tombliboos' piano, the sippy cups from the Pinky Ponk, the Og-Pog.
(10) The study’s lead researcher, Prof Pinki Sahota, said: “The results suggested that body shape dissatisfaction and dietary restraint behaviours may begin in children as young as six to seven years old, and there is an association with increased BMI.
(11) And they are bonkers, involving a psychedelic cast of Iggle Piggle and Upsy-Daisy and Makka Pakka and the rest, all bobbling around in a surrealist garden, dancing and hugging, hanging out in a magical gazebo and travelling in their flying vessels, the Ninky Nonk and the Pinky Ponk.
(12) Twenty minutes after both injections had been given and a Super Pinky pressure device had been placed on the eye, the mean decrease in IOP from the preoperative value was 3.1 mm Hg in group 1 and 4.8 mm Hg in group 2.
(13) [It] is hard to believe she could get worse … you can start down at her pinky toe and work your way up to her head and you will find a cut, bruise, graze or broken bone on every part of her body … She has been giving it her all for a week now and the first three days she had no medical care whatsoever.
(14) His compositions were daring and dynamic, combining radical foreshortenings and vast areas of "empty" space, Procrustean croppings and dangerous blockings of view, and an enormous variety of materials and techniques, greasy inks and essences – oil diluted with turps – powdery pinky pastels, plain old charcoal on bright green commercial paper or robin-egg blue, and all shapes and sizes, some huge some almost miniatures, some extremely elongated, some almost square.
(15) Some people do seem to be worried that their children are going to grow up with a vocabulary of Pinky Ponk and Ninky Nonk and Makka Pakka, and I think that's rather silly.
(16) Pinky, a 1949 race drama about a light-skinned black woman passing for white, was another exception, garnering a best supporting nomination for Ethel Waters.
(17) I feel like Pinky taking notes from The Brain as he runs through ideas for a huge Boy Better Know record, Eskimo Dances in Dubai and Jamaica, a Roll Deep record label, and even a grime version of Watch The Throne.
(18) It was common enough, as late as 1938, for Graham Greene to have his sinister protagonist Pinkie carry a small bottle of acid in Brighton Rock.
(19) The effort's wide, but really not far away at all, and it's not clear whether Mannone would have got his pinkies to it were the ball on target.
(20) Usually, this happens after the pinkie-wiggler has been intimate with the pinkie-wigglee and their, ahem, coupling ended badly.