An insignia used by the medical profession

Usage examples of caduceus.

Too much like that big-arena stuff Mobius Caduceus did up in the orbital habitat.

Jhana Meniskos announced that it was a performance by Onoma Verite, the latest discovery by Lev Korchnoi and the Mobius Caduceus music collective.

There were dozens of them, each button smaller than a dime, with a tiny shank on the back, a raised emblem of a caduceus on the front.

Latent had pulled fifty million smudged partials from the caduceus buttons.

I THOUGHT ABOUT the sick mind that had to be behind those caduceus buttons as I drove home that night.

I started running toward the stairs, wondering how many patients had died in this hospital, how many had been found with caduceus buttons on their dead eyes.

When I turned away, I saw a pair of caduceus buttons winking at me from the console beside the bed.

CEO, had stated repeatedly that the mortality rate at Municipal was within range for similar hospitals, and that the caduceus buttons were a joke.

Then he showed me a small plastic box half-filled with caduceus buttons.

The caduceus, serpents around a winged staff, symbol of the medical profession.

The caduceus of Hermes, which was given him by Apollo in exchange for the lyre, was a magic wand which exercised influence over the living and the dead, bestowed wealth and prosperity and turned everything it touched into gold.

In historical times the caduceus was the attribute of Hermes as the god of commerce and peace, and among the Greeks it was the distinctive mark of heralds and ambassadors, whose persons it rendered inviolable.

At this moment Mercury unfortunately approached his caduceus a little too close to the sinister object on the floor.

Mercury had laid aside his caduceus, and Neptune had slipped his trident under the table.

The restoration work was beautiful, down to the neon-illuminated caduceus above the front door.