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phalanges - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun phalanx (as well as of phalange ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun phalange .noun phalanx .
Etymologies
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From φάλαγγες (phalanges), plural of φάλαγξ (phalanks).
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The second specimen is considerably less impressive, consisting only of two phalanges from the foot.
Obscure dinosaurs of the Kimmeridge Clay Darren Naish 2006
The second specimen is considerably less impressive, consisting only of two phalanges from the foot.
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
The phalanges are the fourteen bones of the toes, -- three in each except the great toe, which, like the thumb, has two.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
It extends from the heads of the outer rods of Corti to the external row of the outer hair cells, and is formed by several rows of minute fiddle-shaped cuticular structures, called phalanges , between which are circular apertures containing the free ends of the hair cells.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 4. The Internal Ear or Labyrinth 1918
They are composed of small bones called phalanges or internodes, which are jointed upon one another like the several parts of the human fingers.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
The wrist is composed of eight bones, ranked in two rows, each comprising four bones; the metacarpus of five and the fingers, which are five in number, of three bones each, called the phalanges , except the thumb, which has but two.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879
Honking horns, formidable phalanges , terrific teeth or fabulous feathers all attest to the quality of the genetic code carried within.
Carin Bondar: Excuse Me... I Think You've Got Something Stuck on Your Upper Lip Carin Bondar 2012
My mouth opened wide and the clamped cardiac muscle and intruding stake fell free, only to be caught in my still skeletal phalanges .
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
My mouth opened wide and the clamped cardiac muscle and intruding stake fell free, only to be caught in my still skeletal phalanges .
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
Honking horns, formidable phalanges , terrific teeth or fabulous feathers all attest to the quality of the genetic code carried within.
Carin Bondar: Excuse Me... I Think You've Got Something Stuck on Your Upper Lip Carin Bondar 2012
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