anatomical snuff-box

anatomical snuff-box
a triangular depression on the dorsum of the wrist at its radial border formed between the tendon of the extensor pollicis longus medially and the tendons of the extensor pollicis brevis and abductor pollicis longus laterally, formed when the thumb is abducted and extended.


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