The thumb
Ephippium policis Coxa is latin or ephippium (greek and later accepted in latin) is for pad (cushion) Thumb is Polex (pollicis plural) Thumb: The short thick digit of the human hand, next to the index finger and opposable to each of the other four digits. Pad: The cushionlike flesh on the underpart of the toes and feet of many animals. Polex is the latin term for thumb (like in musculus abductor pollicis, or priceps pollicis brevia)
The cast of Die Reise nach Kafiristan - 2001 includes: Vassilios Avgouteas as Barkeeper Jochen Baumert as Deutscher 1 Senta Bonneval as Dame 2 Matthew Burton as Joseph Hackin Christoph Frass as Diener Len Haddad as Frau an der Reeling Jeanette Hain as Annemarie Schwarzenbach Carlheinz Heitmann as Deutscher Botschafter Rania Kurdi as Ria Hackin Thomas Morris as Deutscher 2 Madeen Mustafa as Zahlmeister Nina Petri as Ella Maillart Joachim Polex as Herr 2 Wolfgang Rau as Bibiothekar Helene Ruthmann as Dame 1 Hebrahin Schischani as Peter Anika Unterburg as Helferin Oliver Weichmann as Helfer