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† ˈfocile Anat. Obs.
Forms: 5 fosile, 6 faucylle, focyll, focil, 6–8 focile.
[ad. med.Lat. focile. Cf. Pr. focil, Fr. focile, Pg. and It. focile.
The med.Lat. word was a transferred use of focīle steel for striking fire (see fusil). The Arabian anatomists applied the word zand, one of a pair of sticks for producing fire by friction (dual zandān), to these bones on account of their shape; the Lat. translators rendered this by focile as being the word most nearly equivalent in literal sense.]
One of the bones of the fore-arm or of the leg. greater focile, the ulna or tibia. lesser (or over) focile, the radius or fibula.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 157 Þe þombe..conteyneþ his firste boon wiþ þe extremite of þe ouer fosile. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. D ij b, The faucylles or forke bones. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. (1586) 281 The great focile is that which susteineth the arme. 1638A. Read Treat. Chirurg. ii. 15 [A] Taylor..fractured both the focils of the legge, a little below the knee. 1721Naish in Phil. Trans. XXXI. 228 The Ligament that ties the Fociles together.
attrib.1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. K iv b, Of what shape are y⊇ two focyl bones? 1548–77Vicary Anat. vii. (1888) 49 Of the two Focel bones..the lesse goeth from the Elbowe to the Thombe. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Focil-bone. |