The garrote was the principal device used for capital punishment in Spain for one and a half centuries until its abolition. Originally, it entailed a mode of execution wherein a convict would be beaten to death with a club (garrote in Spanish).n this 15th-century depiction of the burning of Albigensians after an auto de fe, the condemned had been garroted previously. It is one of the first depictions of a garrote. Pedro Berruguete, Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe.
In the distal third of the hand and webspaces, the dorsal metacarpal arteries supply two or three perforator branches, which travel between the tendons and tendon sheaths of the back of the hand to reach the skin, where they divide into two or more short branches (salmon, 1988).
JF-The top of both the foot and the hand is the dorsal surface. The opposite side of the hand is the palmar surface; the opposite side of the foot is called the plantar surface. Don't know why you thought that dorsal would be down.The dorsal fin of the shark is on his back. didn't say that dorsal was down. Dorsal means back, spinal or posterior side and ventral means front, abdominal or anterior side. In that sense, the top of the foot faces front and the sole of the foot faces backwards when the foot is extended.