volar
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According to both St. Bonaventura and Tomás de Celano, St. Francis of Assisi’s manual stigmata included baculiform masses of what presented as hardened black flesh extrudent from both volar planes.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 28, 2011
In other subjects, while able to stand and walk, great difficulty is experienced because of volar flexion of the phalanges.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Pressure on the navicular bone is diminished and tension on the flexor tendon is relieved by even slight volar flexion.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
These experiments with filled spaces, like the earlier experiments, were made on the volar side of the forearm beginning near the wrist.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
That is, in cases where the subject is simply "cock-ankled", where volar flexion of the pastern joint exists but the foot is kept flat on the ground, correction is possible without tenotomy.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
