Perissodactyl i (per i so dak til i)

pl. [NL., pl. of per is so 1, lower end of tibia; 2, calcaneum or protuberance of the hock, corresponding to human heel; 3. astragalus; 4, cuboid; 5, navicular of anatomists, or scaphoid; 6, outer cuneiform; 7, third or middle metatarsal, or cannon-bone, bearing 8, fourth or outer metatarsal, or splint-bone; 9, first phalanx, great pastern, or fetter-bone: langeal joint, or fetter-joint; 11, sec ond phalanx, small pastern, or coronary bone; 12, third phalanx IMG:content-2719.png:[blocks in formation] dactylus: see peri odactyl.] Same as Per is so IMG:content-2720.png:[blocks in formation] peri odactyl ous (pe-ris-ō-dak'ti-lus), a. [ = = Pg. It. per is so logia, IMG:content-2721.png:[graphic] ameter. See hexameter.