Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See phalanx.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy and zoology, a phalanx of a digit.
- n. In entomology, any one of the joints of an insect's tarsus: generally used collectively of all the joints, exclusive or not of the metatarsus: as, the anterior phalanges.
- n. In botany, a bundle of stamens joined more or less by their filaments: as, the phalanges of stamens in a diadelphous or polyadelphous flower.
- n. Same as phalangiid.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- French, from Old French, body of infantrymen, from Latin, from Greek phalanx, phalang-, log, battle array, bone between the finger and toe joints; see phalanx. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Dr. Fong initially reserves an opinion regarding the return to full service for the pinkie, as the saw blade blasted most of the bone below the joint, or proximal phalange, and the cartilage is shredded.”
“The first joint was all right, but the second phalange was cracked, I thought.”
“Also, who said that the phalange and Ahrar militias committed sectarian and ethnic massacres towards Muslims and Palestinians in eastern Beirut?”
“But I would be offended if someone gave me a phalange cake after I had lost some...”
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“I crook my knees around the forward phalange of their wing.”
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Bones of the Upper Limb
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