Crossword clues for phalange
phalange
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "phalanx, ancient military division," from Middle French phalange "phalanx" (13c.), from Latin phalangem (nominative phalanx); see phalanx. It is the earlier form of this word in English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.). (15th-17th c.) 2 (context anatomy English) A phalanx. (from 17th c.) 3 (lb en rare) (alternative form of Falange English)
Usage examples of "phalange".
I to V, arranging the phalanges in a formula of 2-3-4-5-0 beneath them, and capping all with an ankle made up of the astragalus, calcaneum, and three distal tarsals.
The ball had pierced my hand by the metacarpus under the index finger, and had broken the first phalanges.
I noticed then for the first time that he had short rachitic hands with bowed and thickened phalanges.
In rachitis epiphyseal swellings are seen at the wrists and ankle-joints, and in superior cases at the ends of the phalanges of the fingers and toes.
Diffuse spotty rarefaction, cortical thinning, penciling of at least one phalange.
THE BONES OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES, sixty in number, are classed as follows: The Femur, Patella, Tibia, Fibula, Tarsus, Metatarsus, and Phalanges.
The clavical, humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia, fibula, the bones of the metacarpus, metatarsus and the phalanges, are classed as long bones.
In more liberal company Sir Joseph might have spoken of the paper on pottos, with particular reference to their anomalous phalanges, that Dr Maturin had read to the Royal Society and the sensation it had caused among those capable both of hearing what he said and of appreciating the full import of what they heard: in the present circumstances he carried straight on.
The tarsal bones are short, and the digits have the usual number of phalanges, the ungual or nail-bearing ones being small and rounded.
It dangles, now, on a piece of green string: her slender index finger, reduced to bare bones but still undeniably elegant, the three phalanges from tip to the base knuckle, clinking against the little conch shells and miniature bivalve fans and trumpet shells and tiny spirals similar to the whorled homes of snails.
When he was six years old it began on the terminal phalanges of the middle fingers.
A myxomatous swelling attacked the phalanges and effected a complete absorption of the terminal phalanx.
The nails on the absorbed phalanges had become small and considerably thickened plates.
No heads, claws, distal phalanges, teeth, or outer integument present.
Talut said, pointing to the six enormous mammoth tusks, wedged in at the base with smaller bones -- parts of spines and phalanges -- with their tips pointing toward the center.