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opposable
opposable, a. (əˈpəʊzəb(ə)l) [f. oppose v.2 + -able.] 1. Capable of being opposed, withstood, or placed in opposition (to). rare.1667 [implied in unopposable]. 1802–12 Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 151 The application is either opposable or unopposable. 1829 ― Justice & Cod. Petit. 195 No ...
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The Opposable Mind
The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking is a book written by Roger Martin and published by the Harvard Business Review See also
Roger Martin
The Design of Business
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Review of the book in The Financial Times
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Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs - The Onion
Published August 30, 2000. HONOLULU-In an announcement with grave implications for the primacy of the species of man, marine biologists at the Hawaii Oceanographic Institute reported Monday that dolphins, or family Delphinidae, have evolved opposable thumbs on their pectoral fins. One of the evolved dolphins, whose opposable thumbs have ...
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unopposable
unoˈpposable, a. (un-1 7 b.)1667 Waterhouse Fire Lond. 60 Illiterate men Apostoliz'd and made by him unopposable. 1802–12 Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 151 The application is either opposable or unopposable.
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Familial opposable triphalangeal thumbs duplication
Familial opposable triphalangeal thumb duplication is a limb malformation syndrome and a type of pre-axial polydactyly, characterized by having duplicated opposable triphalangeal thumbs.
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opposability
opposability (əpəʊzəˈbɪlɪtɪ) [f. next + -ity.] The quality of being opposable.1863 Huxley Man's Place Nat. ii. 86 The great toe,..in uncivilized and barefooted people,..retains a great amount of mobility, and even some sort of opposability. 1882 A. R. Wallace in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 430 The large size...
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Thumb
In robotics, almost all robotic hands have a long and strong opposable thumb. Opposable thumbs are shared by some primates, including most catarrhines.
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Opposable thumbs
Modern humans are unique in the musculature of the forearm and hand, though opposable thumbs or structures like them have arisen in a Primates fall into one of four groups:
Nonopposable thumbs: tarsiers and marmosets
Pseudo-opposable thumbs: all strepsirrhines and Cebidae
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Didelphis
The Virginia opossum has opposable toes on their two back feet.
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Position tolerance
Position tolerance must only be applied to features of size, which requires that the feature have at least two opposable points.
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Triphalangeal thumb
Complications
Generally, triphalangeal thumbs are non-opposable. If the TPT is hereditary, it is mostly inherited as an autosomal dominant trait, non-opposable and bilateral.
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Grooming claw
The first toe is opposable, like a human thumb, and the second and third toes correspond approximately to the index and middle fingers.
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Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse
Largish hind feet with nails instead of claws on the outer toes, which are opposable.
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Caloptilia serotinella
The caterpillar generates the force required to roll leaves by stretching the silk strands it fixes between opposable plant surfaces.
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Oreophrynella
They are characterized by opposable digits of the foot, dorsal skin that bears tubercules, and direct development (i.e., there is no free-living larval The presence of opposable digits, unique among bufonids, in combination with an extension of the interdigital integument and the relative length/orientation
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