Talk:Finger tip unit

I have no idea what the "distal skin-crease" is, nor is there a link to an explanation. A picture would help a lot here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.249.238.158 (talk) 09:11, 8 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree that a photograph would be most helpful. --TedColes (talk) 05:43, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Distal skin crease
I wondered too. Wikipedia explains, that when "appendages... branch out from the body... the Ostium or opening (is) where the vessel branches off and distal (is) the extreme end away from the branch point." So where the fingers separate, branching off, is the Ostium. The tip is the "distal" point. I'm not a medical person and it would be nice if one would help here, but it seems that "distal skin crease" is a more exact way to describe the skin crease on the finger furthest from the branching point on the hand. Makes sense here. Answers the question, how much of the fingertip do we cover? When we say a spot of cream the size of a "finger tip" we mean from the very tip back to where the skin last creases, the "distal skin crease." That's my guess. Profhum (talk) 14:35, 26 July 2011 (UTC)