overturn (iou) and palmar branch of median nerve (medicine)

overturn (iou)

overturn verb & noun. ME.
[from OVER- + TURN verb, noun.]
A. verb.
verb intrans. Of a wheel: turn round, revolve. ME-M17.
verb trans. Cause to fall over or down, upset. ME.
M. Leitch Our sole aim must be to overturn the social iceberg, stand it on its head. P. Auster I ransacked the closet.., overturning boxes.
b. verb intrans. Fall over, capsize; fall down. LME.
J. T. Story Trying to prevent the boat overturning, trying to haul down the sail.
verb trans. Overthrow (a person, institution, principle, etc.); subvert; abolish; invalidate. ME.
F. Spalding The Greco-Roman tradition was being overturned in favour of a new, geometric Art.
b. spec. Reverse (a judicial etc. decision). M20.
Guardian The ruling was overturned in the Lords.
verb trans. Turn away; change from one thing, state, condition, etc., to another; pervert. LME-L16.
b. noun.
The action of overturning, the fact of being overturned; an instance of this; (a) subversion; (a) revolution. L16.
= TURNOVER 5. rare. L19.
Geology. = OVERFOLD noun. L19.
The mixing or circulation of the water in a thermally stratified lake, usu. occurring once or twice a year on cooling or warming of the epilimnion. E20.
overturner noun L16.

palmar branch of median nerve (medicine)

palmar branch of median nerve
<anatomy, nerve> Branch of median nerve arising proximal to flexor retinaculum and running superficial to it to supply skin of proximal central palm and thenar eminence. Since it does not traverse carpal tunnel, it is not affected by carpal tunnel syndrome, even though it supplies skin distal to carpal tunnel.

Synonym: ramus palmaris nervi mediani.

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