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phalange

[ fal-uhnj, fuh-lanj, fey-lanj ]

noun

, Anatomy, Zoology.
, plural pha·lan·ges [f, uh, -, lan, -jeez].
  1. a phalanx.


phalange

/ ˈfælændʒ /

noun

  1. anatomy another name for phalanx
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of phalange1

First recorded in 1550–60; back formation from phalanges
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Word History and Origins

Origin of phalange1

C16: via French, ultimately from Greek phalanx
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Example Sentences

Rocket has a “cybernetic skeletal structure, enhanced phalange and metacarpal bones, and a genetically augmented cerebral cortex.”

There was that innocently ignoble time Phoebe Buffay pretended she was a physician named Dr. Regina Phalange.

There is no evidence of a pulley joint between the metatarsal and the adjacent phalange.

The second phalange is concave at the upper articular end and convex in the longer direction at the lower end.

Society, on his scheme, is to be divided into departments or phalanges, each phalange numbering about 1600 persons.

Each phalange inhabits a phalanstre or common building, and has a certain portion of soil allotted to it for cultivation.

Great artists, great mechanicians, great writers—these belong to no phalange, but to humanity.

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