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thenar Anat.|ˈθiːnə(r)|
Also 8 tenar, thenor, tenor.
[mod.L., a. Gr. θέναρ palm of the hand, sole or flat of the foot. Cf. OHG. tenar, MHG. tener; F. thénar (16th c.).]
The ball of muscle at the base of the thumb; the palm of the hand; the sole of the foot.
1672Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend §10 The Thenar or Muscle of the Thumb. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Tenar,..Thenor, or Tenor, according to some, is the Name for an abducent Muscle which draws the Thumb from the Fore-finger. 1857Dunglison Med. Lex., Thenar, the palm of the hand, or sole of the foot.
b. attrib. or as adj. thenar muscles, the muscles which form the thenar eminence, the ball at the base of the thumb.
1857Dunglison Med. Lex., Thenar or Thenal Muscle, Riolan and Winslow give this name to the fleshy mass, formed of the abductor brevis. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xiv. 224 So may the thenar, the hypothenar, and the arm muscles [be found tender]. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 209 A distinct flattening of the thenar eminence. |