Anat. [f. VOLA + -AR.] Of or belonging to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot; palmar.
1814. Wishart, trans. Scarpa’s Treat. Hernia, Explan. p. xvi. The term volar in the atlantal extremities is restricted, as in common anatomical language, to the parts within the palm of the hand.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 9. Any bone of similar function in connection with the tendons on the volar side of the hand.
1885. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., I. 353. Superficial volar [artery]: Very often of small size, so small that it terminates in the muscles of the thumb.
