mployed in the act. There is no interdifferentiation, no collateraldifferentiation, no difference of small parts in con-trast with large parts; the metacarpus is straighttransversely, in contrast with the contracted meta-carpus of the feeble hand and the hand in rest. STRAIGHT HAND WITH THUMB… … Fig. 23.—The Straight Extended Hand with Thumb drooped. this is a departure from the normal in the directionof weakness, the first and most mobile, and the mostspecialized bone of the metacarpus being adducted,as in the convulsive hand, the feeble hand, and thehand in rest. This is often seen in a…
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