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Body Regions > Extremities > Upper Extremity > Hand > Fingers

Preferred term

Fingers  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • use for primates only; use TOES (IM) + FORELIMB (NIM) for non-primate vertebrates; differentiate from FINGER JOINT; NIM when merely locational

Scope note

  • Four or five slender jointed digits in humans and primates, attached to each HAND.

In other languages

  • sormi

    Finnish

  • digitus
  • digitus manus
  • sormet
  • Fingrar

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005385

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