The hand is wider, and carries a pair of opposable claws, the paraglossæ.
The opposable inner edges are armed with strong tooth-like processes of dense chitin, which interlock when the mandibles close; those towards the tip of the mandible are sharp, while others are blunt, as if for crushing.
Fore-feet with the two inner toes slightly separated from and opposable to the remaining three, all with strong curved and much compressed claws.
Apes make little use of their separate fingers and opposable thumbs.
Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposablethumb for climbing.
Defn: A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb.
Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
The pollex is opposable to the other digits, and so is the hallux except in Man; the digits are almost always provided with flat nails.
In the Didelphyidae the foot is broad, all five digits are well developed, and the hallux is opposable to the others.
In the other Primates the internal cuneiform has a saddle-shaped articulating surface for the hallux, which is obliquely directed to the side of the foot and opposable to the other digits.
The creature has nails of the ordinary form to its fingers, and semi-opposable thumbs; but the molar teeth are studded with sharp points, showing that it lives chiefly on insects.
A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb.
Lemuroids correlated with an opposable great-toe, so here it is correlated with a true opposable thumb.
In the Monkeys and Lemuroids this bone is not generally rounded, and they have not the thumb opposable in the strict sense that it is among the higher Apes.
They differ in certain respects, as in the proportion of the limbs, in the bony development of the eyebrow ridges, and in the opposable great toe, which fits the foot to be a climbing and grasping organ.
Whatever their relationship, they both possess the opposable thumb as the hall-mark of their arboreal habitat, and whenever found walking on the ground they may be looked upon as estrays from their native place of residence.
It has an opposable hallux and a non-hairy, but scaly, tail.
The great-toe is large and can be moved from and to the side of the other digits, but is not opposable to them.
Their thumb is not invariably present, but when it is, it is always opposable to its fellow digits.
I was right in conjecturing that the creature had no opposable thumb; but a little ingenuity had compensated this so far as regarded the power of carrying.
Another malformation combined with a functional anomaly, that is never met with as a deformity resulting from adaptation, is theopposable big toe.
In apes the foot is formed almost exactly like our hand, with a large thumb-like great toe quite free from the other toes, and so articulated as to be opposable to them; forming with the long finger-like toes a perfect grasping hand.
The thumb is proportionately larger in man, and more perfectly opposable than in that of any ape.
The thumb on their hinder feet is opposableto the four other toes, as in a hand, and by this they are directly allied to the Semi-apes, or Prosimia, among Placental animals.
They are very active and intelligent, their limbs are not so long as in the preceding group, and though they have five fingers on each hand and foot, the hands have weak and hardly opposable thumbs.
The walking gait already present in phyllomedusines provided a source for further modification, which resulted in the development of opposable digits and the associated lemuroid manner of climbing.
A more reasonable hypothesis is that the evolution of opposable digits took place in a phyletic line that had as its ancestral stock a frog with generalized hands and feet.
The attitude is erect, the hand has a well-developed opposable thumb, the centres of the brain relating to the higher senses and to the control of all the motions of the limbs, hands, and fingers are well developed.
The opposable thumb, with its power of bringing the thumb against each of the fingers, is the one character which is lacking in every one of the anthropoid apes and which was early developed among the ancestors of man.
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