Sexdactyly or hexadactyly is a genetic condition in which a person has six fingers on one or both hands, or six toes on one or both feet. This is a genetically inheritable condition; it is actually autosomal-dominant; and some populations feature a larger proportion of six-fingered people.
Sexadactyly, or hexadactyly, is not merely defined as having six finger per hand or six toes per foot. It requires that each of the six fingers have its own ray, so that no two fingers would be more "merged" than on a normal hand on X-rays (as in most forms of polydactyly). Nonspecialists and the media however use the terms interchangeably.
It has been rumored that Anne Boleyn, wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of Queen Elizabeth I of England, had six fingers on one hand.
The biblical giant Goliath is said to have had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot
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Person With 6 Fingers
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Polydactyly or polydactylism (from historic Greek ????? (polus) "many" + ???????? (daktulos) "finger"), additionally regularly occurring as hyperdactyly, is a congenital actual anomaly in people having supernumerary palms or feet. whilst each and every hand or foot has six digits, it is likewise regularly occurring as sexdactyly, hexadactyly, or hexadactylism.
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When each hand or foot has six digits, it is sometimes called "sexdactyly", "hexadactyly", or "hexadactylism".
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A sextimanus.
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hexadactyly
and/or Nephilim lol
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polydactyl
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