Finger

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, the bones of whom are termed phalanges, on each hand (exceptions are polydactyly, oligodactyly and digit loss). 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.

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Famous quotes containing the word finger:

    the trouble lies in pointing
    At any stars. For one’s own finger aims
    Always elsewhere: the man beside one seems
    Never to get the point. “No! The bright star
    Just above my fingertip.”
    John Hollander (b. 1929)

    the jeweled prize
    always
    at our finger tips.
    We will it so
    and so it is
    past all accident.
    William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    God, I can push the grass apart
    And lay my finger on Thy heart.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)