digitationn.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Digitation, a pointing with the fingers.

1677 E. Coles Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Digitation, a shewing or pointing with the fingers.

1683 T. Tryon Way to Health Contents A Digitation of the seven perfect Colours, shewing how there being mixed two, three or four of them together, produce their several Complexions, contrary to their own Colours.

1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Digitation, a pointing with the Finger.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 387/1 A Tactation, or Digitation; which is a bare or simple touching of a thing, whereby we perceive the object touched to be either hot, cold, or luke-warm.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 71 I laid me down on the bed..requiring any means to divert or allay..my desires... At length, I resorted to the only present remedy, that of vain attempts at digitation.

1779 F. Foster Thoughts on Times iv. 155 We have found, that..the manual Assistance of a Man Midwife is unnecessary—and that his Digitation, and Instruments, render his Practice frequently productive of Mischief.

1838 Junonesia 46 There cannot be a doubt that digitation [during labour], as directed, will dilate the passage for the time, but it admits of as little doubt that it also inflames the parts.

1856 Lancet 4 Oct. 372/1 It [sc. laceration of the uterus] may even be produced by improper digitation, during the course of precipitate labours.

1928 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 4 16/2 If such deformities persist after controlled filling of the bowel, and this can usually be determined by digitation, there is little doubt that these are organic defects.

1983 R. Langevin Sexual Strands x. 341 The married exhibitionists had more varied heterosexual outlets than the single exhibitionists; namely intercourse, cunnilingus, anal digitation.

1999 H. Lapsley Margaret Mead & Ruth Benedict x. 210 This enabled her to work using two typewriters, a feat of digitation which contributed to her prodigious output.

2005 European Jrnl. Radiol. 53 411/1 Excessive straining was evident in 37 (68.5%) of these patients, digitation on defecation in 43.

1726 Friendly Dæmon 7 Being now unable to Write; and, for want of Speech, having no other way of communicating my Answers..except by Digitation.

1694 W. Cowper Μυοτομια Reformata i. 19 Its largest, last, and most Fleshy Digitation, leaving the lowest Bastard Rib at its extream Point, and in its oblique Descent declining forwards, still recedes gradually more and more from the Vertebræ.

1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 114 Where the Ligaments cease, they become..at their upper extremities half round, and sometimes form'd into Digitations.

1757 C. N. Jenty Course Anatomico-physiol. Lect. III. x. 237 It has also been seen fixed to the first false Rib, by a very small thin Digitation.

1804 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 2) I. 29 Sometimes, as in the Bats, the digitations of the anterior feet are greatly elongated.

1865 Monthly Notices Papers & Proc. Royal Soc. Tasmania Sept. 91 The under surface of the leaf is white and downy, the upper green, the ribs of each digitation strong.

1918 B. F. Kaupp Anat. Domest. Fowl 282 It breaks up into terminal branches, one going to each serration, or digitation, of the serratus muscle.

1968 J. Bouillon in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. ii. i. 97 These in certain cases give rise to numerous digitations or villosities perforating the periderm and taking part in respiratory exchanges.

2000 Jrnl. Shoulder & Elbow Surg. 9 31/1 All specimens..presented a digitation that extended to the proximal aspect of the..muscle.

1703 tr. P. Dionis Anat. Humane Bodies Improv'd 106 They take their Origin by Digitation from the Serratus Major [Fr. par digitation du grand dentelé].

1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Digitation, division into fingers, or finger-like processes, as exhibited by several of the muscles..in their coalescence on the ribs.

1901 Amer. Naturalist 35 43 The digitation of the septa..marks the beginning of the adolescent or neanic stage.

1934 Jrnl. Paleontol. 8 292/2 Our forms differ from them materially only in the details of the digitation of the lobes.

1981 Teratology 23 383 A zone of physiological necrosis within the preaxial mesoderm thought to be instrumental in controlling preaxial digitation was abolished.

1988 Quaternary Res. 30 138/2 Digitation and glaciation also associate in southern Chile.

2000 Jrnl. Crustacean Biol. 20 711/2 The variations in the digitation of the scale setules, which eventually reduces into spine-like setules, indicate a gradual transition to a serrate form in compound setae.