Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling a worm; lumbriciform; vermiform: specifically applied in anatomy to the lumbricales.
- noun A lumbrical muscle. See
lumbricalis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Resembling a worm.
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- adjective worm-like. As in the lumbrical muscles of the forearm or the round worm Ascaris lumbricoides.
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Examples
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You have movement of one lumbrical—the ring finger of your left hand—and good shoulder and neck muscle control.
A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001
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Recently it is treated by dynamic hip screw (DHS). by tension of the lumbrical and interossei.
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Recently it is treated by dynamic hip screw (DHS). by tension of the lumbrical and interossei.
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