(n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.
(n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.
(n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
(n.) The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
(n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
(n.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree.
(n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
(n.) Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy.
(v. t.) To handle.
(v. t.) To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle.
(v. t.) To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; -- usually with off.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(3) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
(4) The Palme D’Or-winning Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has said he does not want his new film to be screened in in his home country, for fear of the reaction of the ruling military junta.
(5) Hyperlinearity was significantly more common in the palms of the patients with atopic dermatitis.
(6) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(7) Jeffrey Epstein in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2008.
(8) The procedure consists in making transverse skin incisions on the palm and fingers leaving the wounds open after limited fasciectomy.
(9) Lubricants, anthralin, and corticosteroids form the mainstay of therapy in mild and moderate psoriasis of the palms and soles.
(10) The allegation that palm oil consumption leads to raised blood cholesterol levels and is therefore atherogenic is without scientific foundation.
(11) The needles were from a commonly grown palm, Phoenix canariensis.
(12) I cannot see anything before October, or even the end of the year, because there remain some difficult topics to resolve.” Lozano is most intriguing on two things: the issue of justice, and what he sees as a potential impasse over economic policy and the role of multinational corporations, especially those wanting to extract Colombia’s significant riches in gold, emeralds, coal, hydrocarbons and minerals, or turn grassland into palm oil plantations.
(13) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(14) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(15) Widespread keratotic papules and striking hyperkeratosis of the palms and soles went unrecognized as a manifestation of tuberculosis, thereby delaying treatment in a patient with AIDS-related complex.
(16) Patients with fever, polymorphous skin eruption, congested conjunctiva, reddened palms and soles, red lips and oral mucous membrane, and soft-tissue swelling of the peripheral extremities and who experience membranous desquamation of fingers and toes should be suspected of having mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome.
(17) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(18) On Tuesday, Obama was sworn in with his palm on the same velvet-covered Bible used by Lincoln in 1861, but he had no bible with him at the re-run.
(19) In this report, we recall that Raynaud's phenomenon is a "key" symptom at the center of vascular disorders of the hand, since in the positive, differential diagnosis, among its etiologies, good clinical knowledge of acrosyndromes, arteritis of the palm and digits, and the thoracic outlet syndrome is necessary.
(20) Read more The FEC forms count any asset worth more than $50m as the same – and Trump has close to two dozen of those, including his Scottish golf course and the Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Thenar
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar.
(n.) The palm of the hand.
(n.) The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the corresponding part of the foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite this, most did not have thenar wasting or weakness.
(2) Immediately after birth a 1 cm soft, bluish mass of the right thenar eminence was clinically diagnosed as a hemangioma.
(3) Brain potentials were derived from surface electrodes over the scalp at contralateral postcentral and precentral sites and muscle potentials were derived from surface electrodes over the thenar eminence.
(4) Sweating only lowered cold thresholds at the thenar significantly and only slightly raised warm and heat-pain thresholds at the thenar.
(5) A borderline (7-14 sec) Allen's test was present in 12.5% and 2.5% required more than 15 seconds for thenar flush.
(6) Median nerve stimulation at the elbow evokes a thenar muscle action potential (MAP) with an initial positive deflection not seen on stimulation at the wrist.
(7) Contracture of these fasciae, usually ischemic in nature, may cause contracture of the first web space ; the neurovascular elements, which are implicated in paralysis and Volkmann's contracture ; the teguments of the web space and thenar aponeurotic system in which cord-like thickening (as in Dupuytren's contracture), accidental or surgical incisions, may result in severe contracture of the first web space.
(8) The author presents a new technique of dynamic operation designed to restore the opposition of the thumb in cases of distal median nerve paralysis affecting muscles of the thenar.
(9) Vibrotactile thresholds for 7 male stutterers and 7 normal-speaking men (age range for both groups = 19 to 32 yr.) were obtained from the right, midline, and left sides of the lingual dorsum, and the thenar eminences of both hands.
(10) Long-latency cortical loop reflex EMG activity in the thenar muscles and giant SEPs occurred following median nerve stimulation.
(11) Thenar amyotrophy of carpal origin was found in two sisters aged respectively 49 and 59 years and in a 75 year-old woman and her 56 year-old daughter.
(12) Two variations of normal creases were investigated: the thenar type R and the distal type I.
(13) The automatic neuromuscular response (ANR) was recorded from the gastrocnemius muscles bilaterally and the perturbation detection time (DT) was obtained from the onset of thenar muscle discharge.
(14) No evidence of transneuronal degeneration could be demonstrated in the thenar group in these patients with the current techniques.
(15) The uses of the transfer have included cases of carpal tunnel syndrome with thenar atrophy, injury to thenar muscles, and direct trauma to the median nerve in the forearm.
(16) Amplitudes declined linearly with age (r = -0.836 for thenar MAXMEP P less than 0.001).
(17) The aim of this study was to describe a simple electrophysiological method to detect the anomalous communication innervating hypothenar and thenar muscles.
(18) The stimuli were applied to the thenar and the dorsum pedis with a contact thermode.
(19) Short- and long-latency responses (HR and LLR) from thenar muscles were studied in patients with Friedreich's ataxia and pure cerebellar ataxia with later onset by applying electrical stimuli on the median nerve at the wrist.
(20) 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.