palmar
adjEtymology Borrowed from Latin palmāris. By surface analysis, palm + ar.
- "A latent print on the palmar surface of our hands and the plantar surfaces of our foot is a scan that is entirely different from the scan on the rest of our bodies.1988 May 20, Jack Clark, “Touch of Death”, in Chicago Reader:
- The long and ring superficialis tendons lie more palmar than the index and small.2002, John Gray Seiler, Essentials of Hand Surgery, →ISBN, page 14:
- Synonyms
- palmal
- Antonyms
- dorsal
- Derived terms
- distopalmar, dorsopalmar, lateropalmar, nonpalmar, odonto-tricho-ungual-digital-palmar syndrome, palmar fibromatosis, palmarly, posteropalmar, proximopalmar, radiopalmar, transpalmar
- Hypernyms
- volar