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The hand is an organ that is directed by the will and is capable of a great variety of complicated movements. These movements are possible because of the highly co-ordinated actions of its intrinsic and extrinsic muscles and its numerous joints. The thumb is all-important to the hand, since the property of apposition depends on it; without this, the functional capacity of the hand is reduced greatly.
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Thorek, P. (1985). Hand. In: Anatomy in Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8286-7_42
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