(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.