Dacrydium

(From a tear). See Diagridium.

Dacryodes

(From a tear). In Hippocrates it is a sanious ulcer.

Dacryoma

(From to weep). A coalition of one or more of the puncta lacrymalia.

Dacryopceos

(From a tear, and facio). An epithet for substances which cause a flow of tears, as onions, etc.

Dactyletus

(From a date). See Hermodactylus.

Dactylethra

(From a finger.) A machine shaped like a finger, and introduced into the stomach to excite a vomiting.

Dactylion

(From the same). Web fingered.

Dactylios

(From the same). See Trochisci.

Dactylon Radice Repente

See Gramen Dactylon.

Dactylothece

(From a finger, and pono). So Pare calls an instrument which he used in some cases of injury done to the fingers.

Dactylus

(From to point out). The finger; and the fruit of the palma dactylifera, a date; called dactylus and digitus, from its likeness to a finger.

Dactylus palmula. Palma major, palma dac-tylifera; phaenix dactylifera Lin. Sp. Pi. 1658; the great palm tree, or date tree. It is cultivated in the southern parts of Europe; its fruit is oblong, larger than an acorn, and includes a stone. The best dates are those which are soft, large, and not much wrinkled, of a reddish yellow colour on the outside, and a whitish membrane between the flesh and the stone. They are moderately astringent, particularly when unripe, yet are eaten as food in Africa. Galen calls the best dates, in Syria, caryoti.

DAE.'dalus. Quicksilver. See Arg. vivum. -DaeDaleus, (from to work curiously).

In botany it means exquisitely and curiously wrought.

Daedion

Taedula, (a diminutive of dais taeda, a torch,) a kind of pessary.

Daemonts

Ordure. Dung.

Daemonomania

(From demon, and

madness). Daemonia. The melancholy which is supposed to arise from the possession of demons.

Dais

See Taeda.

Daitdes

(From and likeness). In

Galen it means great torches; but it is usually applied to heads of garlic. See Allium.