A 32-year-old man presents with wrist drop and inability to extend the thumb at the interphalangeal joint after a fracture of the mid-shaft humerus. Which clinical finding best distinguishes a proximal median nerve lesion (above the elbow) from a distal lesion (at the wrist)?

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