...The number of the metacarpal bones in mammals neverexceeds five, but it often falls below it; the same is truefor the digits...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...The number of metacarpals and digits diminishes in proportionas the limbs cease to be organs of prehension, andbecome more exclusively organs of support and locomotion...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...But atthe same time it extends the first phalanges, to producea certain tension of the flexors of the digits, and thusenable the latter to act with greater efficacy, with aminimum of contraction...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...We already knowthat, in the latter, the metacarpals and the digits areequally reduced in number; the same is the case for themetatarsals and the toes...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...Superficial Flexor of the Digits (Flexor digitorum sublimis)(, 12; , 10, 10)...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...In the dog and the cat the principal tendon is dividedinto four parts, which go to the four last digits...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...In the ox it is divided into two parts only; as, moreover,in the pig, whose superficial flexor is destined forthe two large digits only, the lateral digits receiving nopart of it...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...In the pig the tendon divides into four tendons destinedfor the four digits...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...On its palmar aspect are found only the tendonsof the flexors of the digits, and as these tendons arelarge, and the hand long, they give origin to externalforms which it is necessary to examine...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...The pig has also four hoofs—two for the great digits andtwo for the lateral digits...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...The tarsal bones areshort, and the digits have the usual number of phalanges, the ungualor nail-bearing ones being small and rounded...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...The insertion is on thejoint pulleys and capsules at the base of the third and fourth digits...
William B. Stallcup 「Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae」
...The second digits of the foot...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
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