About 10 results for ‘Finger’
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Finger
A finger is a limb of the human body and a type of digit, an organ of manipulation and sensation found in the hands of humans and other primates. Normally humans have five digits, termed phalanges, on each hand. The first digit is the thumb, followed by index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger or pinky. Some other languages use the same generic term for all five digits of a hand. English dictionaries describe finger as meaning either one of the five digits including the thumb, or one of the four excluding the thumb (in which case they are numbered from 1 to 4 starting with the index finger closest to the thumb). Linguistically, it appears that the original sense was to include the thumb as a finger: the word is derived from *penkwe-ros (also rendered as *penqrós) which was, in the inferred Proto-Indo-European language, a suffixed form of *penkwe (or *penqe), "five", which has given rise to many Indo-European-family words (tens of them defined in English dictionaries) that involve or flow from concepts of fiveness. Chimpanzees have lower limbs that are specialized for manipulation, and (arguably) have fingers on their lower limbs as well. The term 'finger' is not applied to the digits of most other animals, such as canines, felines, or ungulates, none of which can engage in fine manipulation with their forelimbs as a primate can.
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Rome
- Archaeology
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- Designation:
- pilon
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- Portrayed subject:
- Finger
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- Date:
- 1st century
- Ancient Rome
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Medicine
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- Designation:
- broyeur
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- Portrayed subject:
- Finger
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- Artist(s):
- Théodore Chassériau
Deux figures en buste, de dos, tête penchée ; main droite...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Crus (lower leg)
- Finger
- Hand
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Théodore Chassériau
Etude de main droite, les doigts repliés
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Baffier
L'épine
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Finger
- Health care
- Man
- Peasant
- Thorns, spines, and prickles
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Field(s):
- Architecture
- Middle Ages
- Sculpture
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- Designation:
- statue ; fragment
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- Portrayed subject:
- Finger
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- Date:
- Middle Ages
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- Field(s):
- Architecture
- Middle Ages
- Sculpture
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- Designation:
- statue ; fragment
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- Portrayed subject:
- Finger
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- Date:
- 14th century
- Middle Ages
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Rome
- Archaeology
- Ceramic
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- Designation:
- lampe à huile
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- Portrayed subject:
- Finger
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Personnage en bas à droite (Sa main, inversée, et reprise...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Egypt
- Archaeology
- Belief
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- Designation:
- amulette | dite des deux doigts
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- Portrayed subject:
- Finger
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Egypt
- Archaeology
- Belief
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- Designation:
- amulette | dite des deux doigts
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- Portrayed subject:
- Finger
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Egypt
- Archaeology
- Belief
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- Designation:
- amulette | dite des deux doigts
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- Portrayed subject:
- Finger
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Egypt
- Archaeology
- Belief
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- Designation:
- amulette | dite des deux doigts
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- Portrayed subject:
- Finger
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Cathédrale de Chartres, notre dame de la belle verrière
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- Field(s):
- Stained glass
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- Portrayed subject:
- Acanthus (ornament)
- Aureola
- Cathedral
- Chartres
- Christian cross
- Cloak
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Costume
- Merovingian dynasty
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- Designation:
- fibule | fibule ansée ; fibule digitée
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- Date:
- 6th century
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