Middle English Dictionary Entry
focīle n.
Entry Info
| Forms | focīle n. |
| Etymology | ML |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One of the two bones of the forearm; gretter, more, or nether focile, the ulna; lesse or over ~, the radius; (b) one of the two bones of the lower leg; more ~, the tibia; lesse ~, the fibula.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)157/10 : Þe extremite of þe ouer fosile.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)14a/b : In which [þe litel arme] bene 2 bones seid focilez..þe gretter þat is byneþefourþ..goþ toward þe litel finger..The lesse forsoþ is aboue, & it goþ fro þe plicature of þe cubite vnto þe hand toward þe þombe.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)14a/b : Þe gretter focile [*Ch.(2): Þe more focyle].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)103b/b : Þe brekyng of þe nether gretter focile is more perilouse & fouler þan of þe ouer lesse focile.
b
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)22b/a : The schap of þise fociles: it semeþ þat þe more haþ two holowenessis toward þe knee, in the which þe roundenessis of þe þyghe ben resceyued. Ffor þe lasse comeþ nouȝt to þe ioynte,but..it lyeþ nygh from vnder þe knee in to þe vtter partye, and þerfore it is cleped accus. & toward þe foot in ioynynge it self with þe more focile, þai maken boþe an holownesse in þe whiche þe firste bone of the foote is resceyued.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)104b/b : The legge is some tyme broken..in þe more focile, and þan it boweth bakwarde..The legge is some tyme broken..in the lesse focile, and þan it boweþ bifore forþe and to wiþ inforþe.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. focile.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a) & (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. less focile.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a) & (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. more focile.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. greater focile.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. nether focile.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. over focile.