(a.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anxiety conditions were measured by monitoring palmar skin resistance with a psychogalvanometer.
(2) In the 18 month-old a more mature grasp and forearm combination, mainly palmar grasp with or without stablizing index finger + overpronated forearm, was found.
(3) Bifid uvula, preauricular pits, and abnormal palmar creases were also slightly more common in the patients, but the differences were not statistically significant.
(4) Because of the compensatory collateral circulation, no permanent symptoms of ischaemia occur despite the partial resection of both palmar digital arteries.
(5) Painful palmar and plantar erythema is an uncommon systemic complication of chemotherapy and has been reported in association with methotrexate, cystosine arabinoside, doxorubicin, and 5-fluorouracil.
(6) As in previous studies, the sites predominantly affected were the foot and the hand, mainly on the plantar and palmar surfaces.
(7) No significant difference is observed when single localizations (dorsal or palmar) are considered.
(8) The palmar digital nerves to the thumb were constant in position and course, with a short lateral cutaneous branch from the radial palmar digital nerve in 30 per cent of cases.
(9) The diagnostic criteria of median nerve compression (carpal tunnel syndrome) include morphological and signal changes in the nerve, abnormal palmar convexity of the flexor retinaculum and signs of tenosynovitis of the intracarpal flexor tendons.
(10) A worrisome lesion in a 62-year-old black man prompted a review of the differential diagnosis of pigmented lesions involving palmar skin.
(11) The tendon is threaded through a hole in the distal phalanx from the dorsal to the palmar side and impacted like a cork to create an immediate strong fixation.
(12) The locomotor function tests included a power grip and two precision grips; dermatoglyphic features were represented by finger and palmar pattern intensities and ridge counts, and body structure by 35 head, face, trunk, and limb anthropometric measurements.
(13) Finger pulse amplitude (PA), finger blood content (BC), heart rate (HR), and palmar skin potential reflex (SPR) were recorded simultaneously.
(14) It is however restricted by its medial tendon which runs into the palmar aponeurosis.
(15) Evaluation of the palmar surface of the superficial digital flexor tendon was limited by the midline attachment of the tendon sheath, otherwise the surfaces of the tendons and tendon sheath could be examined with 25 degrees and 70 degrees arthroscopes.
(16) It is characterized by nodular growth and proliferation of collagen in the palmar and plantar fascias.
(17) Open reduction should be performed through a palmar incision.
(18) The clinical results suggest that BSTS is the technique of choice for one-stage transaxillary sympathectomy in the treatment of palmar hyperhidrosis.
(19) Iontophoresis is a suitable alternative to long-term drug therapy and should be offered to patients for the control of palmar hyperhidrosis prior to surgical intervention.
(20) The major sources of the sensory fibres of the palmar digital nerves appeared to be the ganglia of the C8 and T1 spinal segments which contained more than 90 per cent of all labelled neurons.
Volar
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each subject applied a vehicle cream containing 0.075% capsaicin (Axsain, GalenPharma Inc.) to a 4 cm2 area of skin on one volar forearm and vehicle alone to an identical treatment area on the other forearm, according to a double-blind procedure.
(2) Weakness of the flexor pollicis longus, flexor digitorum profundus and pronator quadratus is usually related to an isolated paralysis of the anterior interosseous nerve in the volar aspect of the forearm.
(3) The procedure to accomplish this end utilizes the measured thermal pain threshold, surface temperature, exposure time, and incident energy on a standardized skin site (volar surface of the forearm) to obtain conductivity values.
(4) It is suggested that this is due to the fact that the small animals have discrete, elevated volar pads.
(5) The treatment of a Smith type-II fracture is a volar buttress plate unless extended comminution is present.
(6) Volar subluxation of the tendons of the first dorsal compartment of the wrist occurred in two patients after surgery for treatment of de Quervain's stenosing tenosynovitis.
(7) Bleeding into the anterior muscles and into the volar aspect of the wrist, on the other hand, was complicated by contracture, neuropathy, or both in six cases.
(8) Histologic examination of the volar carpal ligament showed fibrocartilaginous changes suggesting a progressive degenerative phenomenon.
(9) Using a volar technique, rather than the traditional dorsal method, allows stabilization of the constructed metacarpophalangeal joint and maximizes flexor function.
(10) We have constructed a device for standardized radiodiagnostics of ulnar, volar, and radial capsulo-ligamentous lesions of the basal thumb joint.
(11) The tests, performed on volar forearm skin, were removed after a 24-h application.
(12) The effect of application site on anthralin inflammation was measured at 10 clinically normal volar skin sites on each forearm of 31 subjects as the increase in skin thickness at 48 h using Harpenden calipers.
(13) This report describes the successful use of a free sensory medial plantar flap for the reconstruction of the volar skin of the index finger.
(14) This study examined input-output relation of the somatosensory system in response to mechanical air-puff stimuli applied to the volar aspect of the tip of the index finger.
(15) This was achieved with good result by release of all the retaining ligaments around the proximal interphalangeal joint including both the collateral ligaments, the volar plate, the transverse retinacular ligaments, and extensor tenolysis.
(16) The interval between injury and the onset of symptoms of volar compartment syndrome varied between 12 and 48 hours.
(17) The flag flap, elevated from the dorsal aspect of the proximal phalanx, may be employed as a one-stage procedure to cover a loss of soft tissue on the volar aspect of the adjacent finger, the staff of the flap running over an oblique web-space incision.
(18) We decided to test Chrysaora hysoscella dermotoxicity on healthy volunteers by cutting a Chrysaora hysoscella tentacle and placing it on a gauze soaked in a solution of 3% NaCl and applying then to the volar side of the right wrist for one minute.
(19) This provides good quality cover to the volar aspect and avoids bulk on the dorsum.
(20) For these sites thin and pliant fasciocutaneous flaps are ideal tissue transfers, and we favour the radial forearm flap which is raised from the distal volar forearm.