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Definition of Little finger
1. Noun. The finger farthest from the thumb.
Terms within: Musculus Abductor Digiti Minimi Manus
Generic synonyms: Minimus, Finger
Definition of Little finger
1. Noun. the outermost and smallest finger of the hand, next to the ring finger, farthest from the thumb ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Little finger
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Little Finger
Literary usage of Little finger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"... 8 hands; middle and little fingers, 2 hands; thumb and little finger, ...
ring finger of one and little finger of the other hand, 2 cases of each ..."
2. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1903)
"Put the string across left palm, one string radial to index, the other ulnar to
little finger, with the long loop hanging the dorsal side. ..."
3. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"Could he not know that his body was bigger than his little finger, if his language
were yet so imperfect that he had no such relative terms as whole and ..."
4. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1860)
"... thick as the little finger running underground. All the leaves are radical,
this outermost being both shortest and thickest, the interior leaves almost ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"When he did not hold the other fingers together and attempted to abduct the little
finger, the ring finger invariably went with it as if the two fingers ..."
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