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to check the pulse rate at an easily acceptable pressure point, where an artery near the surface can be pressed against a bony structure.
Other well-known pressure points for measuring pulse include the neck (carotid), groin (femoral), knee (popliteal) and foot (dorsalis pedis).
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What the nurse do when places her fingers on your wrist?
They check your pulse
Is the wrist proximal to the fingers?
distal to the wrist, because they are away from the shoulder (origin point)
Are the fingers lateral to your wrist?
The fingers are distal to the wrist. The wrist is proximal to the fingers. In anatomical position, it is possible to say the thumb is lateral to the wrist.
The fingers are located where to the wrist?
the fingers are DISTAL to the wrist bones.
Which type of blood vessel in being felt when a doctor is taking a patients pulse?
In the wrist, it is a deoxygenated
The wrist is what to the fingers in respect of the elbow?
The wrist is proximal to the fingers and distal to the elbow.
Which muscles allow you to flare your fingers?
The muscles which allow you to extend your wrist and flare your fingers are the flexor muscles in the wrist and the prime movers in the fingers. These muscles will coordinate to adduct the wrist and the fingers.
Name 2 places to check your pulse?
You can either 1: put two fingers on below you hand on to your wrist. 2: put two fingers on the side of your neck. 3: put your hand over your heart.
What is the wrist to the fingers?
distal
What is the primary extensor of the wrist and fingers?
The extensor digitorum communis is an extensor of the wrist and fingers. The extensor digitorum communis is the primary extensor of the lateral four fingers IP joint and assists in wrist extension.
Does the hand include the wrist and fingers?
the hand definatley includes the fingers, but i would think that the wrist is a different part entirely.
Pertaining of the wrist and fingers is called?
The words you are looking for is carpal (wrist) and manual (hand). There is no one word for fingers.
