Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the sole of the foot or the palm of the hand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the palm, especially the ball of the thumb; thenar: as, the volar artery (the superficialis volæ).
- Palmar; not dorsal, as a side or aspect of the hand: as, the volar surface of the fingers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Pertaining to the
palm of the hand or thesole of the foot.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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-- The ligaments here involved are the four volar ligaments described by Sisson [24] as follows: "The _volar ligaments_ (Ligg
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Oh, y la semana pasada, dejo a la familia atrás en Colorado para volar hasta Vancouver y buscar a Edward Cullen por las calles.
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Oh, y la semana pasada, dejo a la familia atrás en Colorado para volar hasta Vancouver y buscar a Edward Cullen por las calles.
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Bueno pues, no soy aprista ni mucho menos es toy de parte de ningun gopbierno para mi tooooooodos son igules prometen y despues se tiran la plata y se mandan a volar a otros paises despues de gobernar.
Global Voices in English » Peru: Freezing Temperatures in Puno Result in Children Deaths 2009
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Since the tails are used not only as a sort of third arm when swinging in the trees (as a safeguard from falling), but often supports the entire weight of their bodies while they feed, this would make sense: fingerprints, and other places with "friction ridges" - the volar regions - generally tend to occur where one needs to grip something.
A Rule of Thumb Heather McDougal 2008
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The way the ridges develop, oddly, depends on the arrangement of the sweat glands, rising to pores which, in the volar regions, protrude in papillae (nipple-like structures) above the baseline of the skin surface.
Archive 2008-10-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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There is something eternally fascinating about the ridges and whorls on our hands and feet, those unrepeatable patterns which cover most of what is termed our "volar skin", that is, skin of the palms of the hands or the soles of the feet.
Archive 2008-10-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Since the tails are used not only as a sort of third arm when swinging in the trees (as a safeguard from falling), but often supports the entire weight of their bodies while they feed, this would make sense: fingerprints, and other places with "friction ridges" - the volar regions - generally tend to occur where one needs to grip something.
Archive 2008-10-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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The way the ridges develop, oddly, depends on the arrangement of the sweat glands, rising to pores which, in the volar regions, protrude in papillae (nipple-like structures) above the baseline of the skin surface.
A Rule of Thumb Heather McDougal 2008
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There is something eternally fascinating about the ridges and whorls on our hands and feet, those unrepeatable patterns which cover most of what is termed our "volar skin", that is, skin of the palms of the hands or the soles of the feet.
A Rule of Thumb Heather McDougal 2008
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