They drove in silence for a while until he said, "Here's your turning," and slid the Rolls on to thenar row country lane she knew so well. From Wordnik.com. [A Kind Of Magic]
The Royal Infirmary was on the other side of Princes Street, beyond the Grassmarket, towering over thenar row streets and ancient houses around it. From Wordnik.com. [A Kind Of Magic]
She felt the tension in his fingers as he gripped her, and then he was caressing her, tracing thenar row indentation of her waist, cupping her breasts. From Wordnik.com. [A Cure For Love]
They drain into a venous plexus which is situated over the thenar and hypothenar eminences and across the front of the wrist. From Wordnik.com. [VII. The Veins. 3c. The Veins of the Upper Extremity and Thorax] Reference
Kanavel spaces: Anatomic areas separated by septum lying deep to long flexor tendons on palm; located at midpalm and in thenar area. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Surgery] Reference
At the wrist it suddenly becomes hard and dense and covered with a thick layer of epidermis; on the thenar eminence these characteristics are less marked than elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 11. Surface Anatomy of the Upper Extremity] Reference
Wasting of the thenar and hypothenar eminences, and filling up of the hollows above and below the anterior annular ligament, render the appearance on the palmar aspect characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
The metacarpal is adducted, its head forming a marked prominence on the front of the thenar eminence, and the phalanges are displaced backwards, the proximal being dorsiflexed and the distal flexed towards the palm. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
While an assistant draws up the skin as much as possible, the surgeon makes an accurate circular incision through the skin, about an inch below the styloid processes, just grazing the thenar and hypothenar eminences. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
The Abductor pollicis brevis is often divided into an outer and an inner part; accessory slips from the tendon of the Abductor pollicis longus or Palmaris longus, more rarely from the Extensor carpi radialis longus, from the styloid process or Opponens pollicis or from the skin over the thenar eminence. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Myology. 1F. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Hand] Reference
The muscles of the hand are subdivided into three groups: (1) those of the thumb, which occupy the radial side and produce the thenar eminence; (2) those of the little finger, which occupy the ulnar side and give rise to the hypothenar eminence; (3) those in the middle of the palm and between the metacarpal bones. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Myology. 1F. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Hand] Reference
The muscles of the hand are principally concerned, as regards surface form, in producing the thenar and hypothenar eminences, and cannot be individually distinguished; the thenar eminence, on the radial side, is larger and rounder than the hypothenar, which is a long narrow elevation along the ulnar side of the palm. From Wordnik.com. [XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 11. Surface Anatomy of the Upper Extremity] Reference
What impeded Bloom from giving Stephen counsels of hygiene and prophylactic to which should be added suggestions concerning a preliminary wetting of the head and contraction of the muscles with rapid splashing of the face and neck and thoracic and epigastric region in case of sea or river bathing, the parts of the human anatomy most sensitive to cold being the nape, stomach and thenar or sole of foot?. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
10th of June, 1776, for the use of the United States, and the payment of one million on the ssme day by order of the Minister of Foreign Af - fairs to Mr. Beau ma rob a is, were bat one and the same transaction; for it appears by the tetter of the Minister of Finance, a copy of which is an - nexed to the document (C,) that no other pay 'ment was made by the Royal Treasury - to the United States, during thenar 1776; and, by the. From Wordnik.com. [The debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States : with an appendix containing important state papers and public documents, and all the laws of a public nature; with a copious index; compiled from authentic materials] Reference
Omnibonus Ferrarius in mortal dysenteries of children looks for a spot behind the ear; in consumptive diseases some eye the complexion of moles; Cardan eagerly views the nails, some the lines of the hand, the thenar or muscle of the thumb; some are so curious as to observe the depth of the throat-pit, how the proportion varieth of the small of the legs unto the calf, or the compass of the neck unto the circumference of the head; but all these, with many more, were so drowned in a mortal visage, and last face of Hippocrates, that a weak physiognomist might say at first eye, this was a face of earth, and that Morta+ had set her hard seal upon his temples, easily perceiving what caricatura+ draughts death makes upon pined faces, and unto what an unknown degree a man may live backward. From Wordnik.com. [Letter to a Friend] Reference
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