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Culvertailed

United or fastened by a dovetailed joint

dactyl

A poetical foot of three sylables breve breve one long followed by two short or one accented followed by two unaccented as L teumlgmibrevenebreve E merciful so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that...

Deuterozooid

One of the secondary and usually sexual zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids in animals having alternate generations In the tapeworms the joints are deuterozooids

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Diarthrosis

A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion a complete joint abarticulation See Articulation

Dimera

A division of Coleoptera having two joints to the tarsi

Disarticulate

To sunder to separate as joints

Disjointed

Separated at the joints disconnected incoherent

Dislocate

To displace to put out of its proper place Especially of a bone To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone to put out of joint to move from its socket to disjoint as...

dislocated

separated at the joint used especially of limbs as a dislocated knee

Dovetail

A flaring tenon or tongue shaped like a birds tail spread and a mortise or socket into which it fits tightly making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions...

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