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Limb Limber Limbic Limbus Limbo
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ LIMB    id+ | EDGE  BORDER |
          sug> LINTEL  see> LIP  see> LIMIT
          id+ | APPENDAGE OF AN ORGANISM |
          sug> BRANCH  see> MEMBER
          id+ | PAIRED LOCOMOTION APPENDAGES |
          former use was
          lat EXTREMITAS or EXTREMITY
          see> ARM  see> LEG
~ LIMBER  id+ | PLIANT |  see> LIMP below
          as in BENDING  SUPPLE
~ LIMBI   pl of LIMBUS
~ LIMBIC  id+ | BOUNDERY | sug> MARGIN
          med> AREAS OF JUNCTION as are the
               CEREBRAL LIMBIC SYSTEM
~ LIMBO   id+ | OBLIVION or ON THE EDGE |
~ LIMBUS  id+ | BORDER or JUNCTION |  sug> EDGE
          flows toward  see> LIP
  lat LIMBUS    = BORDER
      MEMBRUM     MEMBER or
  sp  MIEMBRO     same     sug> DISMEMBER
  med> in sp MIEMBRO includes   APPENDICES
       including PENIS and other APPENDAGES
  see> MEMBER
  see> MEMBRANE
  med> SKELETON SEGMENTS OF HUMAN LIMBS
       FROM PROXIMAL TO DISTAL ARE
  ZONOSKELETON  comprising SCAPULA  CLAVICLE
  STYLOPODIUM              HUMERYS  FEMUR
  ZYGOPODIUM               RADIUS   ULNA  TIBIA  FIBULA
  AUTOPODIUM               HAND     FOOT
  upper LIMB or ARM or
  sp  PIERNA
  lat PERNA
  skr PERSNA  consider see> PERSON
  ply> PERSONS WALK ON THEIR PERSNAS |
  experts prefer to promote the idea that
  PERSON is from gr PROSOPON from PHERSON for MASK
  see> LIMBO   sug> LIMBUS   sug> LOFTY
  see> LAME for LIMP
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