How to pronounce “ball of the thumb”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (anatomy, informal) The fleshy portion, opposite the nail, of the first segment (first phalange) of the human thumb.
• (anatomy) The most fleshy portion of the palm of the human hand, located adjacent to the second joint of the thumb: the thenar eminence.

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