must be contacted by the staff in the operating room so that the patientâs post-operative. recovery in a single room either in Variety Ward or ICU can be arranged. 6 Protective Isolation. Protective Isolation is designed to protect patients who are severely immunocompromised.
The thumb is the first digit of the hand. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position (where the palm is facing to the front), the thumb is the outermost digit. The Medical Latin English noun for thumb is pollex (compare hallux for big toe), and the corresponding adjective for thumb is pollical.
1 A couple of 19th-century U.S. trial opinions referred to an ancient law permitting a husband to beat his wife with a stick not exceeding a thumb's width but rejected said law.  While this alleged rule involved a thumb, it wasn't the origin of rule of thumb..