anatomical snuff box
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anatomical snuff box
The triangular area formed between the thumb and index finger. When the thumb is extended, it is defined laterally by the raised tendons of the abductor pollicis longus and the extensor pollicis brevis, and medially by the extensor pollicis longus.
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