What's the difference between dactyl and finger?

Dactyl


Definition:

  • (n.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
  • (n.) A finger or toe; a digit.
  • (n.) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We report a case of tuberculous dactylitis--spina ventosa--in a 5 year-old girl from a French upper class family.
  • (2) ), contraction of the dactyl opener muscle may persist for many minutes in the complete absence of action potentials in the excitor nerve or muscle.
  • (3) The opener muscle of the dactyl in the first leg of the crayfish was used to examine the action of the drug on the glutamate response.
  • (4) Painful crisis was the initial manifestation in 77% of the children; other symptoms included dactylitis (14%) and pneumococcal septicemia and acute splenic sequestration (4% each).
  • (5) Oxystomatous crabs of the subfamily Calappinae, particularly the genus Calappa, possess a large tooth on the dactyl and a pair of protuberances on the propodus of the right cheliped.
  • (6) Painful crises and dactylitis are not uncommon in Indian patients but chronic leg ulceration is rare.
  • (7) Although the neurotoxicity of this antibiotic is well documented, the child's pain was initially considered to be a form of sickle-cell dactylitis.
  • (8) In the dactyl opener muscle, on the contrary, most of the attenuation of excitatory junctional potentials is achieved presynaptically, though equally large postjunctional conductance changes are also seen (Dudel and Kuffler, 1961).
  • (9) Another group of receptors is distributed throughout more proximal regions of the dactyl where the cuticle is completely calcified.
  • (10) By the term sarcoid dactylitis we mean sarcoid involvement of the bone and soft tissue of the fingers.
  • (11) Mechanical bending of the dactyl or electrical stimulation of dactyl nerves in which force-sensitive mechanoreceptors were recorded produced strong tonic excitation of motors neurons to the levator muscles of the same leg.
  • (12) A 30 year old Pakistani female patient with osteomalacia and coeliac disease presenting as an isolated dactylitis is reported.
  • (13) A low RDW was associated with higher weight and less frequent dactylitis, painful crisis, acute chest syndrome, acute splenic sequestration, and hospital admissions.
  • (14) Three of the six patients developed dactylitis during the course of chronic sarcoid.
  • (15) One infant had signs of sepsis and dactylitis involving several fingers and toes.
  • (16) This paper examines the responses and reflex effects of force-sensitive mechanoreceptors of the most distal leg segment, the dactyl, of the leg of the crab, Carcinus maenas.
  • (17) The effects of avermectin on a crayfish nerve cell (stretch receptor neuron) were compared with those on a muscle (dactyl abductor).
  • (18) Lesions of only the taste receptors abolished the dactyl clasping response, a result demonstrating that such receptors are necessary to elicit this response.
  • (19) However, in the other three patients dactylitis was the presenting feature of sarcoidosis, and none of these patients had evidence of chronic fibrotic sarcoid elsewhere.
  • (20) Salmonella dactylitis was the commonest presentation of osteomyelitis in the young child.

Finger


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.
  • (n.) Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.
  • (n.) The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.
  • (n.) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
  • (v. t.) To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.
  • (v. t.) To touch lightly; to toy with.
  • (v. t.) To perform on an instrument of music.
  • (v. t.) To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
  • (v. t.) To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
  • (v. t.) To execute, as any delicate work.
  • (v. i.) To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (2) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
  • (3) The pineal of certain lizards possesses a finger-like projection that extends toward the parietal eye.
  • (4) Seventy-five hands showed normal distal latency, in which cases, however, the SNCV of the ring finger was always outside the normal range, while the SNCVs of the thumb, index and middle fingers were abnormal in 64%, 80% and 92% of cases respectively.
  • (5) Furthermore, it involved mixed clinical and histological changes of epidermal nevus from fingers to elbow.
  • (6) Although systemic fibrinolysis with streptokinase was not initiated until eight weeks after the accident, a partial restitution of the markedly reduced macro- and microcirculation in the fingers was possible.
  • (7) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
  • (8) MRPs were larger preceding foot movements than preceding finger movements, their onset being earlier also.
  • (9) In the 18 month-old a more mature grasp and forearm combination, mainly palmar grasp with or without stablizing index finger + overpronated forearm, was found.
  • (10) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
  • (11) A 63-year-old man, with a Waldenström's disease discovered by cryoglobulinemia (ischemic lesions of fingers) was quickly aggravating (hyperviscosity syndrome) under treatment by chlorambucil in a dosage of 8 mg daily.
  • (12) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
  • (13) These preliminary results suggest that finger stick blood samples, collected on filter paper, could be used for FTA-ABS testing of remote rural populations--such as in areas where yaws is endemic.
  • (14) The three-dimensional solution structure of a zinc finger nucleic acid binding motif has been determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
  • (15) The recovery of power grip and finger grip strength is complete in most patients by two months.
  • (16) A yeast protein, Sui3, isolated as an extragenic suppressor of his4 initiation codon mutations, exhibits extensive sequence identity with human eIF-2 beta, especially in the polylysine and zinc finger domains, thereby reinforcing the view that these elements are important for function.
  • (17) Both acquired defects were covered by two different cross-finger flap techniques, despite extensive scarring of the adjacent finger.
  • (18) Our team of reporters have spent the last week on an intensive bikram yoga course in order to get themselves into the rather awkward position of having their ears to the ground, their eyes to the skies and their fingers on the pulse.
  • (19) Entrapment of the ring finger flexor digitorum in the ulna following fracture of both forearm bones is very rare.
  • (20) No, Did they invent sliding fingers across substances?

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