| supernumerary digit | An extra finger or toe. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| digit, supernumerary | An extra finger or toe. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rudimentary | Poorly developed and not functional. Compare: vestigial, obsolete. (09 Oct 1997) |
| binary digit | The smallest unit of digital information expressed in the binary system of notation (either 0 or 1). The signal in computing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventral surface of digit | The flat of the fingers; the flexor or anterior surface of the fingers. Synonym: facies digitalis ventralis, facies digitalis palmaris, ventral surface of digit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| digit | 1. <zoology> One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. "The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. E, two hoofed digits on each foot." (Owen) 2. A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch. 3. <mathematics> One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing. By some authorities the symbol 0 is not included with the digits. 4. <anatomy> One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk. Origin: L. Digitus finger; prob. Akin to Gr, of uncertain origin; possibly akin to E. Toe. Cf. Dactyl. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dorsal surface of digit | The dorsal surface of a finger or toe. Synonym: facies digitalis dorsalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| placenta, supernumerary | A succenturiate or accessory placenta. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nipple, supernumerary | An extra nipple. (12 Dec 1998) |
| supernumerary | Beyond the normal number. Anything supernumerary is extra. (12 Dec 1998) |
| supernumerary breast | A milk-secreting gland located elsewhere than at the normal place on the chest and existing in addition to the two usual mammae. Synonym: mamma accessoria, accessory breast, supernumerary mamma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supernumerary kidney | A kidney, in addition to the two usually present, developed from the splitting of the nephrogenic blastema or from a separate metanephric blastema, into which a partial or complete reduplication of the ureteral stalk enters to form a separate, capsulated kidney; in some cases, the separation of the reduplicated organ is incomplete. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supernumerary mamma | A milk-secreting gland located elsewhere than at the normal place on the chest and existing in addition to the two usual mammae. Synonym: mamma accessoria, accessory breast, supernumerary mamma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supernumerary nipple | An extra nipple. (12 Dec 1998) |
| supernumerary organs | Organ's exceeding the normal number, which may develop from multiple foci of organization in an organ-formative field larger (originally) than that of the definitive main organ; such organ's are aberrant but frequently not a cause of disease; illness may persist if they are left in the body after therapeutic removal of the main organ, e.g., accessory spleen. Synonym: accessory organs. (05 Mar 2000) |