| A-to-D | analog-to-digital |
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| BDIP | biomedical digital image processing |
| CDR | calcium-dependent regulator; clinical dementia rating; complementary determining region; computerize... |
| D/A | date of accident; date of admission; digital-to-analog [converter]; discharge and advise |
| DAC | derived air concentration; digital-to-analog converter; disaster assistance center; Division of Ambu... |
| two-hand | Employing two hangs; as, the two-hand alphabet. See Dactylology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| joints of hand | These joints include the radiocarpal or wrist joint; intercarpal, carpometacarpal, intermetacarpal; metacarpophalangeal and interphalangeal joints. Synonym: articulationes manus, articulations of hand. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flat hand | Loss of normal arches of the hand. Synonym: flat hand. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flexor digiti minimi brevis muscle of hand | Origin, hamulus of hamate bone; insertion, medial side of proximal phalanx of little finger; action, flexes proximal phalanx of little finger; nerve supply, ulnar. Synonym: musculus flexor digiti minimi brevis manus, short flexor muscle of little finger. (05 Mar 2000) |
| free-hand knife | A manually operated knife or blade usually used to take split-thickness skin grafts; e.g., Blair-Brown knife, Humby knife, Theirsh knife. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lumbrical muscle of hand | Four intrinsic muscles of the hand; origin, the two lateral: from the radial side of the tendons of the flexor digitorum profundus going to the index and middle fingers; the two medial: from the adjacent sides of the second and third, and third and fourth tendons; insertion, radial side of extensor tendon on dorsum of each of the four fingers; action, flexes metacarpophalangeal joint and extends the proximal and distal interphalangeal joint; nerve supply, the two radial muscles by the median, the two ulnar muscles by the ulnar. Synonym: musculus lumbricalis manus. (05 Mar 2000) |