 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1917 - 962 páginas
...lying across the front of the hand is a palmar string and one lying across the back of the hand is a dorsal string. . . . " Sometimes there are two loops...can speak of a proximal string and a distal string. . . . "The manipulation consists of a series of movements after each of which the figure should be... | |
 | 1903 - 880 páginas
...is a dorsal string. Sometimes there are two loops on a digit, one of which is nearer the finger-tip than the other. Anatomically, that which is nearer...can speak of a proximal string and a distal string. In all cases various parts of the string figures are transferred from one digit or set of digits to... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - 1912 - 524 páginas
...is a dorsal string. Sometimes there are two loops on a digit, one of which is nearer the finger-tip than the other. Anatomically, that which is nearer...is "proximal," that which is nearer the free end is "distai." Thus of two loops on a digit the one which is nearer the hand is the proximal loop, that... | |
 | 1903 - 872 páginas
...is a dorsal string. Sometimes there are two loops on a digit, one of which is nearer the finger-tip than the other. Anatomically, that which is nearer...can speak of a proximal string and a distal string. In all cases various parts of the string figures are transferred from one digit or set of digits to... | |
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Anatomically, that which is nearer to the point of attachment is "proximal," that which is nearer the free end is "distal." Thus, of two loops on a digit, the one which is nearer the hand is the proximal loop, that which is nearer the tip of the digit... 