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No luck yet, but you all are certainly informative. Thanks. p.
here's some more stuff mostly unrelated to your question:
-although pollex is sometimes applied to the big toe as well as the thumb, the distinctive term for that is hallux.
-pollex is also defined (by W3) as a unit of length equal to one inch -- used formerly in descriptions of invertebrate animals
-although these terms are used mostly in Anat. contexts, here's an actual literary usage of pollex:
She clutched her bag between index and pollex. - Anthony Burgess, MF
-pollical - Of or pertaining to the pollex or thumb
(pollically indexed?)
-pollicate - [Zool.] having thumbs
and, of course, desuperpollicate.
-in case you were wondering, pollicitate is completely unrelated, meaning the action of promising (fr. L. pollicitari, to promise)
Last edited by tsuwm; 01/14/2006 7:25 PM.
