indigitation

English

Etymology

From indigitate +‎ -ion.

Noun

indigitation (countable and uncountable, plural indigitations)

1. The act of pointing out with or as if with the finger; indication.
2. The interlocking of fibers at the junction of muscle and tendon or aponeurosis; digitation; invagination.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “indigitation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.