Trigger finger occurs due to inflammation of the tendons in the hand, causing hand tenderness, pain, and deformity. The condition limits your fingerâs movement and can make it impossible to straighten your finger.
1 A conical or volute spring (including the spring used to hold and make contact with the negative terminals of AA or AAA batteries in remote controls), and the vortex that is created when water is draining in a sink is often described as a spiral, or as a conic helix.
Spiral approach See also spiral model, a software development approach. The spiral approach is a technique often used in teaching or textbooks where first the basic facts of a subject are learned, without worrying about details.