Medical Definition of Dactylus
1. Synonym: digit. Origin: G. Daktylos (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dactylus
Literary usage of Dactylus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1851)
"The boring power of Pholas dactylus.—Having, while residing here, ... The Pholas
dactylus makes its hole by grating the chalk with its rasp-like valves, ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1851)
"The boring power of Pholas dactylus.—Having, while residing here, opportunities
of studying the Pholas dactylus, I have endeavoured during the last six ..."
3. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1890)
"Belonging also to the class of shell-fish is the dactylus,Ka fish so called from
its strong resemblance to the human nails, tt is the property of these fish ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"D. Oval species, with a very short spire, and ordinarily trellised. Example,
Mitra dactylus. Voluta, consists of the following sections :— A. Elongated and ..."
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