digitally
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7.9
- adverb
- /ˈdɪdʒɪtəli/
- Specialized
:
con el dedo
- He learned to take heart rate measurements d digitally by feeling the pulse with his fingers.
Examples
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The doctor examined the patient, inspecting the abdomen d digitally to assess any abnormalities.
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During the medical check-up, she assessed the patient's reflexes d digitally by tapping the knee.
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Each patient was digitally photographed on postoperative days 1, 3, 7, and 14.
Academic text (2015) -
Have a technologically based home visit by sending vital information, like blood pressure, heart rate, and oxygen saturation, digitally to your doctor.
Blog text (11) -
A dual sitting animation where giver and receiver sit side by side on the couch and digitally manipulate each other.
Blog text (24) -
Read one way, this is heart religion and evangelicalism pure and simple; read another, it is an incipient metaphysical message, setting the stage for Bushnell's lifelong war against dogmatism and his refusal to join any digitally precise theological party.
Academic text (2010)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Digitally comes from the Latin word digitus, which means 'finger', and it shares the same root as the English word digit, which originally meant a finger. So in medicine, to check something digitally means to feel it 'with a finger'.