| HSCD | Hand-Schuller-Christian disease |
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| IFSSH | International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand |
| IHP | idiopathic hypoparathyroidism; idiopathic hypopituitarism; individualized health plan; inositol hexa... |
| LH | late healing; lateral hypothalamic [syndrome]; left hand; left heart; left hemisphere; left hyperpho... |
| LHG | left hand grip; localized hemolysis in gel |
| fibrous digital sheaths of hand | Fibrous sheaths of the digits of the hand, the tubular fibrous layers that enclose the synovial sheaths and the superficial and deep flexor tendons and the tendon of the flexor pollicis longus in their passage along their respective digits; they are composed of annular and cruciform parts. Synonym: vaginae fibrosae digitorum manus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |