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[edit]webspace (usually uncountable, plural webspaces)
- (Internet) Disk space used to store web pages and other content that can be accessed through the World Wide Web.
- Some Internet providers offer free webspace to subscribers.
- (anatomy) One of the spaces between the fingers or toes that contains a web of skin.
- 2014, Ian A. Trail, Andrew N. M. Fleming, Disorders of the Hand: Volume 1: Hand Injuries, page 159:
- The first webspace flap has been classified into 4 types based on this versatility […]
- 2016, David G. Greenhalgh, Burn Care for General Surgeons and General Practitioners, page 163:
- Digital contractures and webspace contractures of the foot are dealt with using the same principles and techniques as in the digits of the hand.
- 2017, Scott F. M. Duncan, Ryosuke Kakinoki, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Related Median Neuropathies:
- Injury to the median nerve during CTR commonly involves the nerve to the third webspace, the recurrent motor branch, or the palmar cutaneous branch (seen with more radially placed incisions).
- 2020, Terri M. Skirven, A. Lee Osterman, Jane Fedorczyk, Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Extremity, page 1534:
- Usually one will want to open the tip or the pad of the finger and attend to additional trimming about flexion creases and webspaces […]