Anatom3DRight little finger
Digitus minimus manus dextrae · Pravý malík ruky
Skeleton
Looks like
The fifth digit, the shortest finger: three phalanges on the fifth metacarpal.
What it does
Adds strength to grip, especially power grip, and helps hold objects across the palm.
Keeping it well
A bent-down knuckle after a punch is a 'boxer's fracture'. Contracture pulling it into the palm is usually Dupuytren disease.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Ganglion cyst
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoma
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency