Sentence examples for of a human thumb from inspiring English sources

The bat is a small creature about the size of a human thumb.

Members of the discovery team and other scientists familiar with the research said they were especially surprised by the specimen's size, the length of a human thumb.

Scientists announced the discovery of the smallest known primate, an extinct animal no longer than a human thumb and weighing less than an ounce.

The giant red leech of Mount Kinabalu can grow to over 50cm long, and as thick as a human thumb.

Pandas also have a prominent bone in their forepaws which functions almost like a human thumb.

In this fossil species, the bone was greatly reduced, no bigger than a human thumb.

The so-called Hemingway cats have six digits, with the extra digit the homolog of the human thumb, which gives the paw a mittenlike appearance.

The thumb is of special interest in this context, first because the biomechanics and neuronal control of the human thumb are relatively independent from the other fingers[47], and second because the anatomical relationship of the thumb to the other fingers appears to be derived in humans compared to other apes [48].

The asymmetries of the FPL insertion and the ungual spines are the osteological correlates of the interphalangeal joint configuration of the human thumb, in which flexion is accompanied by pronation, so that the pulp of the thumb faces that of the remaining fingers.

This paper presents the design and kinematic synthesis of a new 2 DOF 9-bar spatial mechanism that can be used as a prosthetic thumb focused on emulating the 5 movements of human thumb joints.

Real-time manipulations of the 3D-rendered image are illustrated for the imaging of human thumb skin.