5-427: Nuckles can refer to: Misspelling of knuckles , part of the hand Nuckles, Arkansas , an unincorporated community Georg Nückles (born 1948), a German sprint Samuel Nuckles ( fl. 1868–1872), an American legislator William Nuckles Doak (1882–1933), an American politician See also [ edit ] NuckleDu , an American gamer Topics referred to by
10-513: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Knuckle The knuckles are the joints of the fingers . The word is cognate to similar words in other Germanic languages, such as the Dutch "knokkel" (knuckle) or German "Knöchel" (ankle), i.e., Knöchlein , the diminutive of the German word for bone ( Knochen ). Anatomically, it is said that
15-406: The knuckles consist of the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) and interphalangeal (IP) joints of the finger. The knuckles at the base of the fingers may be referred to as the 1st or major knuckles while the knuckles at the midfinger are known as the 2nd and 3rd, or minor, knuckles. However, the ordinal terms are used inconsistently and may refer to any of the knuckles. The physical mechanism behind
20-550: The popping or cracking sound heard when cracking joints such as knuckles has recently been elucidated by cine MRI to be caused by tribonucleation as a gas bubble forms in the synovial fluid that bathes the joint. Despite this evidence, many still believe it to be caused by synovial fluid filling the vacuum left by the joint's displacement. In 2009, Donald L Unger was awarded the Ig Nobel for Medicine for his informal experiment with knuckle cracking. For 50 years, he cracked
25-411: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nuckles . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nuckles&oldid=1234320842 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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