Clubbing is an enlargement of the ends of the fingers and a downward sloping of the nails. Although it's not caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it can be a sign of coexisting lung cancer or other lung disorders in patients with COPD. Clubbing is sometimes called digital clubbing. It can affect the fingers and/or toes.
Relatives. Darwin's finches can be divided into groups based on beak type. There are three species of tree finch: the small tree finch, medium tree finch, and large tree finch. Tree finches have grasping beaks.
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica strains either are not pigmented or produce a weak yellow nondiffusible pigment (e.g., the type strain; Bruun and Ursing, 1987), in contrast members of all Chryseobacterium species produce a yellow to orange nondiffusible flexirubin type pigment.wo species of Elizabethkingia have recently been found to be abundant on the leaf and root surfaces of the tropical tree Gnetum gnemon, in Malaysia (Oh et al. 2012, in press) (Oh, Y., Kim M., et al.