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    The thenar eminence is the mound formed at the base of the thumb on the palm of the hand by the intrinsic group of muscles of the thumb. The skin overlying...
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    Hypothenar hammer syndrome is a vascular occlusion of this region. Thenar eminence Palmaris brevis "Intrinsic Muscles of the Hand - Wheeless' Textbook...
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  • Thumbnail for Median nerve
    distal part of the forearm. It supplies sensory innervation to the thenar eminence of the palm and the central palm. Articular branches are given to the...
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  • Thumbnail for Muscles of the thumb
    of the thumb can be divided into two groups; the thenar eminence and other muscles. The thenar eminence refers to the group of muscles on the palm at the...
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  • Parietal eminence, in the parietal bone of the skull Pyramidal eminence, in the middle ear Thenar eminence, muscle on the thumb side of the hand v t e...
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  • Thumbnail for Abductor pollicis brevis muscle
    located just under the skin. It is a thenar muscle, and therefore contributes to the bulk of the palm's thenar eminence. It originates from the flexor retinaculum...
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    anatomy. X-ray of a lipoma Medical ultrasonography of a lipoma in the thenar eminence: It is hyperechoic compared to adjacent muscle, and relatively well-defined...
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    transverse carpal ligament. It ends in the opponens pollicis. In the thenar eminence, the recurrent branch of the median nerve provides motor innervation...
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  • the thumb (lateral, thenar eminence) appear wasted, whereas the muscles on the side of the little finger (medial, hypothenar eminence) are spared. Anatomically...
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  • pathways. Therefore, it is an example of a frontal release sign. The thenar eminence is stroked briskly with a thin stick, from proximal (edge of wrist)...
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  • morphological detail in the cast, particularly impressions of the thenar eminence muscle, also helped convince Krantz, who argued that a hoax "would...
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    3rd digits 1st and 2nd lumbrical muscles. muscles of the thenar eminence by a recurrent thenar branch portions of hand not served by ulnar or radial, i...
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  • Thumbnail for Carpal tunnel syndrome
    progresses, there may be first weakness, then to atrophy of the muscles of thenar eminence (the flexor pollicis brevis, opponens pollicis, and abductor pollicis...
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    long axes of the four fingers while in a fist, or the base of the thenar eminence. When palpated in this position, the bone will be felt to slide forward...
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  • grabs objects placed in palm. Palmomental reflex: stroking on the thenar eminence of the hand causes contraction of mentalis muscles of the chin. Rooting...
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  • thalamogeniculate artery thalamostriate fibers thalamotomy thalamus thenar eminence thigh thigh bone Third trochanter third ventricle thoracic aorta thoracic...
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  • Ball of the thumb may refer to: Thenar eminence, most fleshy portion of the palm of the human hand, located adjacent to the second joint of the thumb...
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    function. Common sites for peripheral NIRS monitoring include the thenar eminence, forearm and calf muscles. NIR is often used in particle sizing in...
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  • Thumbnail for Ulnar collateral ligament injury of the thumb
    Characteristic signs include pain, swelling, and ecchymosis around the thenar eminence, and especially over the MCP joint of the thumb. Physical examination...
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  • Thumbnail for Flexor pollicis brevis muscle
    brevis is a muscle in the hand that flexes the thumb. It is one of three thenar muscles. It has both a superficial part and a deep part. The muscle's superficial...
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  • Thumbnail for Carpal tunnel surgery
    open carpal tunnel release surgery is pillar pain (pain in the thenar or hypothenar eminence that is worse with pressure or grasping), followed by laceration...
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    Often accompanied by apparent atrophy of the first dorsal interosseous muscle of the hand Often accompanied by wasting of muscles of the thenar eminence...
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  • Thumbnail for Bennett's fracture
    include pain, swelling, and ecchymosis around the base of the thumb and thenar eminence, and especially over the CMC joint of the thumb. Physical examination...
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  • Thumbnail for Palmaris brevis muscle
    ulnar neurovasculature during repetitive intermittent grasping tasks. Thenar eminence Palmar interossei muscles Palmaris longus muscle The palmar aponeurosis...
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    Palmar erythema is reddening of the palms at the thenar and hypothenar eminences.: 139  It is associated with various physiological as well as pathological...
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    branch and palmar digital branches. The muscular branch supplies the thenar eminence while the palmar digital branch supplies sensation to the palmar aspect...
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  • technique is done with the patient lying supine with the physician's thenar eminences cradling the occiput with the fingers left free. The physician encourages...
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  • atrophy of the distal extremities (mostly involving feet, legs, and the thenar eminence of the hands), loss of sensation of the distal limbs, loss of reflexes...
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    or limited ability to oppose the thumb and fifth finger Hypoplastic thenar eminences Medial deviation of the great toe (hallux varus), a useful diagnostic...
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  • They drain into a venous plexus which is situated over the thenar and hypothenar eminences and across the front of the wrist. This article incorporates...
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