In your opinion, is a thumb a finger??

Yes, I count my thumb as a finger. The opposable thumb is one of man's most useful assets. Simply, it allows us to grip.

More of an ironing board actually

yes

"I am a man, a man with 4 fingers... but, that doesn't count my thumb."

No, thumb is a digit.

> No, thumb is a digit.

According to Webster's definition of "hand" the thumb is listed as a finger.

Of course it's a finger.

There are alot of don't know choices..My thumb is double jointed..

Yes and no. It depends... if I'm referring to all of my digits, they're fingers and toes. If I'm counting, I'm counting fingers. If I'm referring to something to do with my hand specifically, then my thumb is my thumb.

Well if it was consider a finger they would call it a finger instead of a thumb, but then again I've heard people call it a finger too. So I don't know. I don't consider it a finger .

No, it's a thumb.

The answer is in the question.... is a THUMB...a FINGER......umm....no I'm pretty sure a thumb is a thumb.....Thats like asking if a hot dog is a hamburger.......no no the hot dog is a hot dog......so...a thumb is a thumb...

Well technically the fingers and thumb are known as the "philanges"

I understand a thumb is a thumb and not a finger. However, you asked my opinion and I've always thought of it as one of the gang.

It should be. Why don't they consider it a finger.

Sort of like how come fish isn't considered "meat" according to the RCC.

There are phalanges and I have a keen interest in all things medical. Last time I used medical jargon, I got a ration of crap over it, so I back off from being too technical.

To save further confusion, I will quote from Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary hardbound edition:

The human hand is composed of twenty-seven bones; namely, the eight bones of the carpus, or wrist, the five bones of the metacarpus forming the palm, and the fourteen bones or phalanges of the fingers. Of these phalanges the thumb has but two, all the other digits having three each.

It even comes with a nice diagram: "skeleton of human hand and wrist" complete with bones numbered and named!

Wouldn't it be cool if the thumb had three? I don't know if it would help in opening the mayonnaise, though.

yes, in the same way that an arm is a limb.

No a thumb is a thumb.

Nope. If were a finger, they'd call it a finger.

Lol...I learned that stuff in Biology...I found if pretty interesting....and then we disected half of a pigs head....it was cool....

A thumb is a thumb, a finger is a finger, a toe is a piggie - all flanges.

Right on! We did a fetal pig, too! I was in advanced biology all 3 years in high school. My teacher wanted me to be her lab assistant, but I worked in the vet hosp after school. I was pre-vet in college, but things happened and I had to drop out.

You "a thumb is a thumb" folks realize that it's only a thumb because we made up that word for it, right? Or do you think there's some kind of cosmic thumb-ness built into the way reality works, which prevents it from ever being a finger?

A thumb can be a finger, but can a door be a jar?

No. four fingers and a thumb, gee your dumb. (just a joke it rhymed)

I got a visual of a hamburger patty with five hot dogs coming from it. (it looks like a hand)

Yes. I know when it is because I hear a dingding sound. And lights flash.

Cool......well not so much about dropping out...but crap happends..

Interesting..

it's a phalange.

Yes, but I would be more apt to call it a digit.

No, I consider it a thumb.

It could in theory be classed as an opposable finger, but I feel a thumb should be recognised as seperate thing.

hell no! who ever said pull my thumb to let loose a blastin fart, and how many guys ever got a stinky thumb in their grandmas basement

Technically it is sometimes called your first finger. I don't see it that way. It is a digit & a metacarpal though.

There are only eight fingers because a thumb is not a real finger!!!!!!