What does it mean to have six fingers? I think the answer is that a person has an extra finger. Other people think it is considered very lucky. I would assume this is historical versus current thinking. I see the astrology and palmistry words in the retrievals and that's the clue this is historical thinking. Compare that to the medical site which says those extra digits get removed.
The real information from the medical site is very interesting. Polydactyl: An extra digit can appear on one hand or foot or both hands or feet. It rarely happens on both hands and both feet.
The extra digit isn’t usually a fully functional finger or toe. It tends to be smaller than the other digits. It's usually a partially developed digit that doesn't bend or grip the way the rest of the digits do. Some extra digits are only skin and soft tissue that protrude from the hand or foot. They can vary in size. Some are just a bump on the hand or foot, while others are longer. Other extra digits have skin, soft tissue, and bone underneath. In some cases, there’s a joint as well as a bone. These are more like regular digits.
There are different variations polydactyly based on where the extra toe or finger is located on the hand or foot.
Polydactyly can run in families, but not always. In many cases, polydactyly happens spontaneously without a genetic cause. The child won't have any other developmental differences besides the extra digit. There are some underlying conditions for which polydactyly is a symptom. These conditions include McKusick-Kaufman syndrome, Pallister-Hall syndrome, and Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
There are famous people with polydactyly and they are listed in the Wikipedia entry HERE. Who in the bible had 6 fingers and 6 toes? Goliath's third son. It was said that 'he had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes' (Samuel 21:20-21). With a sentence formation like that it makes me wonder how many hands and feet were on the poor fellow.
But wait, there's way more than 6 digits possible. Here's the picture of Hong Hong with 31 fingers and toes in 2016 at four months old. There appears to be an update on Hang Hang ini Fox News 2016 and he had surgery. Here is the picture at 4 months. The operation was at 6 months. No updates since then. I guess that might indicate a 'happily ever after' ending.
These are abstract collages, with the individual images manipulations in Flexifly of abstracts I took with my iPhone. It would be great to get a better quality iPhone for the camera, as these are a bit pixelated with the manipulations. And an iPhone is so easy to use anywhere. This was at Brock University in the theatre before it was decommissioned That's how you get such dramatic purple lighting.
