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Synonyms for phalanges

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fuh-lan-jeez
Phonetic Transcription : fəˈlæn dʒiz

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Définition of phalanges

Origin :
  • 1550s, "line of battle in close ranks," from Latin phalanx "compact body of heavily armed men in battle array," or directly from Greek phalanx (genitive phalangos) "line of battle, battle array," also "finger or toe bone," originally "round piece of wood, trunk, log," of unknown origin. Perhaps from PIE root *bhelg- "plank, beam" (cf. Old English balca "balk;" see balk (n.)). The Macedonian phalanx consisted of 50 close files of 16 men each. In anatomy, originally the whole row of finger joints, which fit together like infantry in close order. Figurative sense of "number of persons banded together in a common cause" is attested from 1600 (cf. Spanish Falangist, member of a fascist organization founded in 1933).
  • As in legion : noun mass, force of people
  • As in toe : noun foot part
  • As in digit : noun small appendage of animate being
  • As in hand : noun appendage at end of human arm,
Example sentences :
  • The digit, d1, which stands as hallux is fully formed and has three phalanges.
  • Extract from : « Problems of Genetics » by William Bateson
  • Three of the rings and three phalanges are shown in plate 14.
  • Extract from : « The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras » by Thomas William Francis Gann
  • It has only two phalanges, while each of the other digits has three.
  • Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds
  • The other digits, of which the third is the longest, have each three phalanges.
  • Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds
  • In Swifts the third and fourth toes have only three phalanges.
  • Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds
  • The index finger has three phalanges, and is usually clawed.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
  • The middle finger has two phalanges, but the index is rudimentary.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 » by Various
  • In them not only is the metacarpus turned back, but also the two first phalanges.
  • Extract from : « Artistic Anatomy of Animals » by douard Cuyer
  • Such also exist at the articulations of the second and third phalanges.
  • Extract from : « Artistic Anatomy of Animals » by douard Cuyer
  • Veterinarians have given it the name of the oblique flexor of the phalanges.
  • Extract from : « Artistic Anatomy of Animals » by douard Cuyer

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