Sentence examples for fourth digit from inspiring English sources

They measured the 2D-4D rathe – the relative length of the second and fourth digit, an indicator to exposure to prenatal testosterone.

Suppression of digits in hoofed mammals frequently has occurred in the following sequence: the pollex (first digit) is the first to be suppressed, then the minimus (fifth digit), the index (second digit), and finally the annularis (fourth digit).

Second to fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) is associated with cardiometabolic risk in adults.

Ratio of second digit length to fourth digit length (2D:4D) has been extensively used in human and experimental research as a marker of fetal sex steroid exposure.

Although this tradition may derive from early beliefs about the presence of a vein in the fourth digit leading to the heart, the choice is arbitrary.

Longitudinal ultrasound shows multiple hyperechoic reflections with accompanying reverberation artefact (arrows) at the dorsal aspect of the extensor tendons of the fourth digit.

The fourth digit is 1 if the nucleotide is a single-ringed pyrimidine type and 0 if it is a double-ringed purine type.

The second to fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) is sexually dimorphic in humans and is considered to be a marker for the balance of prenatal testosterone and estrogen exposure.

The popularity of using the ratio of the second to the fourth digit (2D:4D) to study influences of early androgen exposure on human behavior relies, in part, on a report that the ratio is sex-dimorphic and stable from age 2 years (Manning etal., 1998).

The fourth digit is the longest, and only slightly longer than the second digit.

The fifth digit of the foot is long, with the tip of its claw almost reaching the base of the claw of the fourth digit.