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Definition of Pollical
1. pollex [adj] - See also: pollex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollical
Literary usage of Pollical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"Four muscles occupy the ball of the thumb,1—the pollical abductor, opponent, ...
The pollical opponent,3 larger than the former and lying partially beneath ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1898)
"Thus no statement is made of the extent to which the pollical pad overlies the
first inter-digital space, as is seen in the Academy's specimen, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1877)
"... one on the pollical side of each digit tendon. Pronator quadratus occupies
the lower fourth of the fore arm in all. ..."
4. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1832)
"meet embarrassed by so many restraints and limitations. Yet, into whatever pollical
errors the French people ware led by the excess of their loyalty, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1895)
"Palms with six striated pads, the proximal half of the pollical pad curved, and
with the concavity facing towards the pollex ; the proximal outer pad ..."
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