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hitchhike: travel by getting free rides from motorists the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb flick: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" ovolo: a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse finger: feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book"
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| thumb f. |
1. a forceps consisting of two strips of metal joined at one end and designed to be used between the thumb and the index and middle fingers. 2. tissue f.
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| thumb-in-palm d. |
adduction contracture of the thumb.
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| thumbnail t. |
(for fractured patella): the examiner's thumbnail is passed over the subcutaneous surface of the patella; a fracture will be felt as a sharp crevice.
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| thumbprinting |
a radiographic sign appearing as smooth indentations on the barium-filled colon, as though made by depression with the thumb; seen in various disorders of the colon, especially ischemic colitis.
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