opera-glass hand
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op·e·ra-·glass hand
a deformity of the hand seen in chronic absorptive arthritis, the fingers and wrists being shortened and the covering skin wrinkled into transverse folds; the phalanges appear to be retracted telescopically into one another like miniature binoculars.
opera-glass hand
A deformity of the hand caused by chronic arthritis in which the phalanges appear to be telescoped into one another like an opera glass.
See also: hand