the proximal distal joint the locations of the bends are related and relative to the finger lengths typically surgical gloves are made to sizes of 5 5 5 6 6 5 7 7 5 8 8 5 9 9 5 and 10 there are many finger lengths that can be designed and made without the need for compliance to any standards international regional or national the only criterion is to attempt to match the general demographic anatomical size with certain regions of the world preferring shorter fingers in a glove and others preferring generally longer fingers in a glove this also depends on the size of the glove as described above the only parameter to which any international regional or national standards apply is the width of the palm that is to match the sizes the relevant standards are astm 3577 en 455 and iso 11232 these sizes again do not have any fixed standard finger lengths fig5 to 7 show how the location of bend 1 represented by point x and the location of bend 2 represented by point y on the finger digits are measured in the form of percentage of the total length of the straightened finger from finger crouch to fingertip respectively the locations of bends 1 and 2 for the five fingers are measured from the base of the finger crouches knuckle of the respective fingers to the respective point of bends when the fingers are in straightened positions as seen from fig5 100 thus corresponds to the fingertip location and 0 to the location of the.