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What is a manus?

What is a manus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (formal) A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a man, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
  2. (obsolete, Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.
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Caudipteryx has short forelimbs and a feathered manus and is likely to have been a secondarily flightless bird.
The variance in the general build of the manus and pes is presumably due to scaling with respect to the wide range in body sizes seen among synapsids.
The canoe received new iakos, new splashboards, and new manus fore and aft.
Consequently, ETA should be described as the longa manus of Minoan, operating as a representative of Minoan, as an intermediary who acts exclusively on behalf of Minoan and does not undertake business on its own account.
Therefore, taxonomic designation based on only manus prints would be premature without associated pes impressions.
In lepidosaurs, crocodilians, and birds the medial border or epicondyle of the humerus is the origin for the major flexors of the manus and carpus.

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