[ExI] hand foot counterpart?

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 18:43:48 UTC 2016


On 6 February 2016 at 17:18, spike wrote:
> I can’t think of a way to ask my search engine this question, so I will
> Exi-Google my generally hip ExI friends please:
>
> Is there a word for structures on the hand which are analogous to a
> corresponding structure on the foot?
>
> For instance: The big toe is the Schnorkleheimer of the thumb.
> Medical and embryology hipsters, is there an existing term which goes in the
> place of Schnorkleheimer in the sentence above?
>

Corresponding?
Equivalent?
You can't say 'functionally equivalent' as the functions are very different.
See:
<http://www.theodora.com/anatomy/comparison_of_the_bones_of_the_hand_and_foot.html>

BillK




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