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pollex

NOUN
  1. the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb

How To Use pollex In A Sentence

  • The forefeet and hindfeet have 3 large digits; the pollex and hallux are reduced in size or absent and the fifth finger is very small.
  • The eyes are usually very small, the feet are plantigrade and have five digits, and neither the hallux or pollex is opposable.
  • And let men make ever such strong pretensions to knowledge, from their far-fetched and dear-bought experience, cannot a penetrating spirit learn as much from the passions of a Sir Hargrave Pollexfen in England, as it could from a man of the same or the like ill qualities, in Spain, in Sir Charles Grandison
  • All eusauropods, in contrast, are characterized by a shortened manus in which each digit bears two or fewer phalanges, and only the pollex bears an ungual.
  • The forefeet and hindfeet have 3 large digits; the pollex and hallux are reduced in size or absent and the fifth finger is very small.
  • The first dorsal has been found divided into two, one part going to the pollex and one to the index; this is a very rare anomaly, not occurring more often than once in 120 subjects.
  • The eyes are usually very small, the feet are plantigrade and have five digits, and neither the hallux or pollex is opposable.
  • Four clawed digits are found on each forefoot (the pollex or ‘thumb’ is small and bears a nail); the hind foot in most has five clawed digits (but sometimes the hallux or first toe has a nail).
  • The fully flexed pollex in an articulated manus of Shuvuuia is in a position similar to full flexion in Mononykus.
  • The enlarged medial ‘epicondyle’ of Apatosaurus may be tied with the flexors of its robust manus and pollex claw.
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