Sentence examples for length of the digits from inspiring English sources
Examination of his hands reveals sclerodactyly, a thickening of the skin involving the full length of the digits.
We measured the length of the digits from radiographs not directly from the fingers and we excluded the non-bony finger tip.
We found that in all cases the fourth digit was larger than the second digit, except in one case where the length of the digits was equal, whereas in adults, especially in females, the second digit is regularly longer than the fourth.
The length of the digit sequences gradually increased, starting with a sequence of three numbers to a sequence of maximum nine.
The ratio of the length of the second digit (index finger) divided by the fourth digit (ring finger) tends to be lower in men than in women.
Under the first scenario, syndactyly would have established itself as a malformation, possibly during a time when the ancestral populations were undergoing a bottleneck event [ 13]; the length isometry of the digits could have arisen because this allowed the digits to function as a unit (see above).
On Facebook, participation rates on the first vote on privacy policy weren't even within arms length of the single digits.
As the team reports this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the length of the three digits, relative to body size, has not changed over course of bat evolution.
The thumb is long relative to the length of the other digits, and includes a robust metacarpal with well-developed intrinsic (M. opponens pollicis and M. first dorsal interosseous) muscle attachments.
In pheasants (Phasanius colchicus) experimental elevation of yolk testosterone increased second-to-third digit ratios (and the length of the third digit) in female, but not male offspring [33] and experimental elevation of yolk estradiol levels increased second-to-fourth digit ratios in male, but not female offspring [34].
2D:4D ratio was calculated by dividing the length of the second digit by the length of the forth digit.
