| 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) |
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| 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-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) |
| first finger | The first digit on the radial side of the hand. Synonym: digitus primus, pollex, first finger. Origin: A.S. Thuma (05 Mar 2000) |
| five-finger | 1. <botany> See Cinquefoil. 2. <zoology> A starfish with five rays, especially. Asterias rubens. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lady's finger | 1. <botany> The kidney vetch. 2. A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger. 3. A long, slender variety of the potato. 4. <zoology> One of the branchiae of the lobster. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fourth finger | Fourth finger. Synonym: digitus annularis, fourth finger. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lateral surface of finger | The lateral surface of a finger. Synonym: facies lateralis digiti manus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| little finger | The little or fifth finger. Synonym: digitus minimus, digitus quintus, digitus auricularis, fifth finger. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lock finger | An affection in which the movement of the finger is arrested for a moment in flexion or extension and then continues with a jerk. Synonym: jerk finger, lock finger, snap finger, spring finger, stuck finger. (05 Mar 2000) |