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
There is volar flexion of the phalanges when the subject is at rest.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
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
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
In both of these series the filled space was always taken near the wrist and the open space in a straight line toward the elbow, on the volar side of the arm.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
