volar
1 Americanadjective
adjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of volar1
1805–15; < Latin vol ( a ) palm of hand, sole of foot + -ar 1
Origin of volar2
1830–40; < Latin vol ( āre ) to fly + -ar 1
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
In acute tendinitis, the subject while at rest, maintains the affected member in volar flexion because this position permits relaxation of the inhibitory apparatus, including the inflamed tendon.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
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