| ASHT | American Society of Hand Therapists |
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| ASSH | American Society for Surgery of the Hand |
| DEHT | developmental hand function test |
| DH | daily habits; day hospital; dehydrocholate; dehydrogenase; delayed hypersensitivity; dermatitis herp... |
| EWHO | elbow-wrist-hand orthosis |
| Hand-Schuller-Christian disease | A condition marked by the abnormal appearance of histiocytes (macrophages) in the blood. Lipid h., Niemann-Pick disease. Sinus h., a disorder of the lymph nodes in which the distended sinuses are completely or nearly completely, filled by histiocytes, as a result of active multiplication of the littoral cells. H. X, a generic term embracing eosinophilic granuloma, Letterer-Siwe disease and Hand-Schuller-Christian disease and indicating a shared common origin for the three entities. (16 Dec 1997) |
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| hand strength | Force exerted when gripping or grasping. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hand surgeon | <specialist> A physician specialist expert in the surgical case management of hand disorders. (27 Sep 1997) |
| hand-winged | <zoology> Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; said of bats. See Cheiroptera. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shoulder-hand syndrome | A syndrome of pain and tenderness, usually to a hand or foot, associated with vasomotor instability, skin changes and rapid development of bony demineralisation (osteoporosis). Frequently will follow a localised trauma, stroke or peripheral nerve injury. (27 Sep 1997) |
| simian hand | Deformity in which there is flattening of the thenar eminence, and the thumb lies adducted and extended; usually due to a median nerve lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| skeleton hand | Extension of fingers with atrophy of tissues; occurs in progressive muscular atrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spade hand | The coarse, thick, square hand of acromegaly or myxoedema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| split hand | A congenital deformity in which the division between the fingers, especially between the third and fourth, extends into the metacarpal region. See: lobster-claw deformity. Synonym: main fourchee, split hand. (05 Mar 2000) |
| navicular bone of hand | The largest bone of the proximal row of the carpus on the lateral (radial) side, articulating with the radius, lunate, capitate, trapezium, and trapezoid. Synonym: os scaphoideum, navicular bone of hand, os naviculare manus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dejerine's hand phenomenon | Clonic contractions of the flexors of the hand (wrist) on tapping the dorsum of the hand or the volar side of the forearm near the wrist; occurs in normal persons but is exaggerated in pyramidal tract lesions. Synonym: Dejerine's reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| synovial sheaths of digits of hand | The synovial sheaths that enclose the flexor tendons of the fingers and line the inside of the fibrous tendon sheaths. Synonym: vaginae synoviales digitorum manus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dorsal digital nerves of hand | Terminal branches of the radial and ulnar nerves in the hand supplying the skin of the dorsal surface of the proximal and middle phalanges of the fingers. Synonym: nervi digitales dorsales, dorsal digital nerves. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dorsal fascia of hand | The deep fascia of the back of the hand continuous proximally with the extensor retinaculum. Synonym: fascia dorsalis manus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dorsal interosseous muscles of hand | Four muscles in the hand; origin, sides of adjacent metacarpal bones; insertion, proximal phalanges and extensor expansion, first on radial side of index, second on radial side of middle finger, third on ulnar side of middle finger, fourth on ulnar side of ring finger; action, abduct fingers 2-4 from the axis of the middle finger, nerve supply, ulnar. Synonym: musculi interossei dorsalis manus. (05 Mar 2000) |