toe

Japanese: toe
toe

…The Chinese character 趾 was used to distinguish the toes from the fingers of the hand, but in recent years this has been abandoned and replaced with 指, with 足の being added when necessary. Incidentally, in the West, there is a distinction between the fingers of the hand and the toes of the feet. The inside of the leg is mainly made up of the skeleton and the muscles that surround it, and also contains blood vessels and nerves. …

From [Fingers]

The toes of the hind limbs are called digits, and are the ends of the limbs of vertebrates.
[Animal Fingers]
The forelimbs of tetrapods are homologous to the pectoral fins of fish, and the hind limbs to the pelvic fins, and the origin of digits dates back to the fossil lobe-finned fishes of the Paleozoic era.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "toe" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…足の指は〈趾〉という漢字を用いて手の指と区別していたが,近年はこれが廃されて指となり,必要なとき〈足の〉を加えることになっている。ちなみに欧米では手の指のfingerと足の指のtoeの区別がある。 脚の内部は主として骨格とその周囲を満たす筋肉とからなり,さらに血管と神経が走っている。…

【指】より

…脊椎動物の四肢の末端にあって,ふつう5本以内の数に分かれ,またいくつかに分節した部分。かつては前肢(上肢)のゆびfingerを〈指〉,後肢(下肢)のゆびtoeを〈趾〉と書いたが,現在は指に統一されている。
[動物の指]
 四足動物の前肢は魚類の胸びれと,後肢は腹びれと相同のものであり,指の起源は古生代の高等硬骨魚であった化石総鰭(そうき)類にさかのぼる。…

※「toe」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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