Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pad-like formation over the inner metacarpal bone of some batrachians.
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Examples
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There was something strange about Kallatra which he hadn't been able to put his thumb-pad on.
The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981
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Smith and Schuster begin by describing the normal cycle of changes in the testes on the one hand and the thumb-pad on the other.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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The horny part of the frog's thumb-pad is comparable with the horny sheath of the horns in the mammalian Prong-buck (_Antilocapra_) which are shed after the breeding season and annually redeveloped.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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Meisenheimer claims that he produced development of papillae on the thumb-pad, not only by implantation of pieces of testis, but also by implantation of pieces of ovary.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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Smith and Schuster conclude that the normal development of the thumb-pad depends on the presence of normal testes, but that there is no sufficient evidence that the effect is due to a hormone derived from the testis.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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There is a thumb-pad on the right side that you use to manipulate the cursor, while the left - and right-click buttons are on the left side.
PC Advisor News 2010
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Control is very simply handled via a context-sensitive icon at the bottom left of the screen, each command corresponding to a direction on the thumb-pad.
Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions 2009
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Though some games on this list may arguably have caught up graphically, none of them deals with car handling on a digital mobile thumb-pad as well as
Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions 2009
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The Samsung has a qwerty thumb-pad which isn't as good for dialling numbers as a 4x3 keypad and not great for typing messages
TechNet Blogs 2009
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Forget LED thumb-pad identification devices, complex retinal laser scanning, or even computerized iris recognition, the way forward for biometric validation is a quick X-ray snapshot of a person's knees, according to a report published in the International Journal of Biometrics.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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