| RHS | Ramsay Hunt syndrome; Rapp-Hodgkin syndrome; reciprocal hindlimb-scratching [syndrome]; right hand s... |
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| SCE | secretory carcinoma of the endometrium; sister chromatid exchange; split hand-cleft lip/palate ectod... |
| SEWHO | shoulder-elbow-wrist-hand orthosis |
| SHFD | split hand/foot deformity |
| WHO | World Health Organization; wrist-hand orthosis |
| 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) |
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| 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) |