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One of the digits of the hand. SYN: digitus manus [TA]. [A.S.]

- baseball f. an avulsion, partial or complete, of the long f. extensor from the base of the distal phalanx. SYN: drop f., hammer f., mallet f..

- blubber f. SYN: erysipeloid.

- clubbed fingers clubbing.

- dead fingers SYN: acroasphyxia.

- drop f. SYN: baseball f..

- fifth f. SYN: little f..

- first f. SYN: thumb.

- fourth f. SYN: ring f..

- hammer f. SYN: baseball f..

- hippocratic fingers clubbing.

- index f. [TA] the second f. (the thumb being counted as the first). SYN: digitus (manus) secundus [II], forefinger, index (1), second f..

- jerk f. SYN: trigger f..

- little f. [TA] the little or fifth f.. SYN: digitus (manus) minimus [TA], digitus auricularis, digitus (manus) quintus [V], fifth f..

- lock f. SYN: trigger f..

- mallet f. SYN: baseball f..

- middle f. [TA] third f.. SYN: digitus (manus) medius [TA], digitus (manus) tertius [III], third f..

- ring f. [TA] fourth f.. SYN: digitus anularis [TA], digitus (manus) quartus IV, fourth f..

- sausage fingers the thick, short fingers of acromegaly; symmetric, diffusely swollen fingers; an early change in systemic sclerosis.

- seal fingers SYN: erysipeloid.

- second f. SYN: index f..

- snap f. SYN: trigger f..

- spade fingers the course, thick fingers of acromegaly or myxedema.

- spider f. SYN: arachnodactyly.

- spring f. SYN: trigger f..

- stuck f. SYN: trigger f..

- third f. SYN: middle f..

- trigger f. a condition in which the movement of the f. is arrested for a moment in flexion or extension and then continues with a jerk; results from localized swelling of the tendon that interferes with its gliding through the pulleys in the palm of the hand. SYN: jerk f., lock f., snap f., spring f., stuck f..

- waxy fingers SYN: acroasphyxia.

- webbed fingers two or more fingers united and enclosed in a common sheath of skin.

- whale fingers SYN: erysipeloid.

- white fingers an occupational disease occurring in operators of pneumatic hammers who are exposed to cold.

- zinc f. a zinc-binding domain in a protein structure often seen in certain gene regulatory proteins, e.g., transcription factors.

fin·ger 'fiŋ-gər n any of the five terminating members of the hand: a digit of the forelimb esp one other than the thumb