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THAT Mr. Pocock (see NATURE, Feb. 4, p. 206) finds the radial sesamoid and the palmar pad that covers it are “capable of only slight movement” in the dead specimen may perhaps be explained in part by the rigidity of the tissues in the undissected cadaver. For most certainly, during the progress of dissection, a very high degree of mobility is demonstrated; and even in the bones themselves, the same fact is attested to in the large, bevelled cartilage-covered joint surface between the scapholunar and the sesamoid.
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JONES, F. The ‘Thumb’ of the Giant Panda. Nature 143, 246 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143246b0
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