| finespun | Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| finfish | <zoology> A finback whale. (pl) True fish, as distinguished from shellfish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| finfoot | <zoology> A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| finger | 1. One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; especially, one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb. 2. <mechanics> Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion. 3. The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard. "A piece of steel three fingers thick." (Bp. Wilkins) 4. Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument. "She has a good finger." (Busby) Ear finger, the little finger. Finger alphabet. See Dactylology. Finger bar, the horizontal bar, carrying slotted spikes, or fingers, through which the vibratory knives of mowing and reaping machines play. Finger board, the part of a stringed instrument against which the fingers press the strings to vary the tone; the keyboard of a piano, organ, etc.; manual. Finger bowl or glass, a bowl or glass to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table. <botany> Finger flower, a sponge having finger-shaped lobes, or branches. Finger stall, a cover or shield for a finger. Finger steel, a steel instrument for whetting a currier's knife. To burn one's fingers. See Burn. To have a finger in, to be concerned in. To have at one's fingers' ends, to be thoroughly familiar with. Origin: AS. Finger; akin to D. Vinger, OS. & OHG. Fingar, G. Finger, Icel. Fingr, Sw. & Dan. Finger, Goth. Figgrs; of unknown origin; perh. Akin to E. Fang. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| finger agnosia | The inability to name or recognise individual fingers, of one's own or of other persons; most often caused by lesion of or near the angular gyrus of the dominant hemisphere. (05 Mar 2000) |
| finger injuries | General or unspecified injuries involving the fingers. (12 Dec 1998) |
| finger percussion | Percussion in which a finger of one hand is used as a plessimeter and one of the other hand as a plessor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| finger phenomenon | A sign of organic hemiplegia; with the patient's elbow resting on a table, the patient's wrist is grasped by the examiner's hand, the thumb of which is used to exert pressure on the radial side of the patient's pisiform bone; if the hemiplegia is organic, some or all of the patient's fingers become extended and spread out in a fanlike form. Synonym: Gordon's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| finger protein | <protein> A protein which has areas with regularly spaced cysteine amino acids that appear to be involved in binding zinc atoms. A protein which has zinc fingers. (09 Oct 1997) |
| finger-nose test | A test of voluntary eye-motor coordination of the upper limb(s); the subject is asked to slowly touch the tip of his nose with his extended index finger; assesses cerebellar function. (05 Mar 2000) |
| finger-thumb reflex | Opposition and adduction of the thumb with flexion at its metacarpophalangeal joint and extension at its interphalangeal joint, when firm passive flexion of the third, fourth, or fifth finger is made; the reflex is present normally but is absent in pyramidal lesions. Synonym: finger-thumb reflex, Mayer's reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| finger-to-finger test | A test for coordination and position sense of the upper limbs; the subject is asked to approximate the ends of his index fingers; assesses cerebellar function. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fingered | 1. Having fingers. 2. <botany> Having leaflets like fingers; digitate. 3. Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fingerling | Young fish, usually in its first or second year and generally between 2 and 25 centimetres long. (Compare fry and parr.) (09 Oct 1997) |
| fingernail | See: nail. (05 Mar 2000) |