The phalanges /fəˈlændʒiːz/ (sg.: phalanx /ˈfælæŋks/) are digital bones in the hands and feet of most vertebrates. In primates, the thumbs and big toes...

also is missing a middle bone. The hallux only contains two phalanx bones, the proximal and distal. The joints between each phalanx are the interphalangeal...

foot are the joints between the phalanx bones of the toes in the feet. Since the great toe only has two phalanx bones (proximal and distal phalanges)...

up phalanx or Phalanx in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The phalanx is a rectangular mass military formation. Phalanx may also refer to: Phalanx CIWS...

truncated articular surface of its third metacarpal bone, and deformities on the first phalanx bone of the third finger. This finger was permanently deformed...

it resolves without treatment. List of cutaneous conditions Hematoma Phalanx bone James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases...

found the missing part after searching for an hour. He also found a phalanx bone and part of a rib. Walker's son-in-law later brought the claw to the...

sesamoid bone called the navicular bone, located within the hoof, that lies on the palmar aspect of the coffin joint between the second phalanx and third...

sesamoids, fetlock joint, first phalanx (long pastern), pastern joint, second phalanx (short pastern), navicular bone, navicular bursa and coffin joint...

modified to support the lengthening of finger (phalanx) bones. The first experiments involved stretching the bones in the arms and legs of people with chondrodysplasia...

The coffin bone, also known as the pedal bone (U.S.), is the distal phalanx, the bottommost bone in the front and rear legs of horses, cattle, pigs and...

uses both their third and fourth toes but a single completely fused phalanx bone for weight-bearing. Ungulates whose habitat does not require fast running...

connective tissue, similar to a ligament, that connects a flexor tendon to a phalanx bone. They contain tiny vessels which supply blood to the tendon. In vertebrate...

mainland, doubts have been raised about the existence of this species. A phalanx bone from the island of Marie-Galante confirmed the existence of a similar-sized...

the sauropods and horned dinosaurs. A claw is a highly modified ungual phalanx. As an adjective, ungual means related to nail, as in periungual (around...

LMBR1 gene and related parts of the genome. Rear dewclaws often have no phalanx bones and are attached by skin only. There is some debate as to whether dewclaws...

that surround two bones at the level of the joint. If the ligaments that attach the phalanx (bone of the toe) to the metatarsal bone are impacted, the...

has one phalanx bone, the next has two, and the back has one (but some birds have one more phalanx on the first two fingers—the claw). The bones of three...

bones known as metacarpal bones, one to each of the five digits. Human hands contain fourteen digital bones, also called phalanges, or phalanx bones:...

fingers each consist of three phalanx bones: proximal, middle, and distal. The thumb only consists of a proximal and distal phalanx. Together with the phalanges...

for both phalanx bones to flex more than 100° until the base of the middle phalanx makes contact with the condylar notch of the proximal phalanx. At the...

incorrectly called hypodactyly or confused with aphalangia, the absence of the phalanx bone on one or (commonly) more digits. When all the digits on a hand or foot...

suspensory ligament. Impar ligament: runs between the navicular bone and the 3rd phalanx. Annular ligament: goes around the back of the fetlock, surrounding...

synonyms of Tarbosaurus bataar by Holtz in 2004. VGI, no. 231/3, a large phalanx bone, assigned to Tyrannosaurus sp. by Yarkov in 2000, was found in the Lower...

from materials of significant origin, such as the last phalanx bone of the little finger, a bone from a dead baby, wood taken from a dead person's coffin...

carpometacarpal joint and to the proximal thumb phalanx at the first metacarpophalangeal joint. The first metacarpal bone is short and thick with a shaft thicker...

on the first phalanx. Often absent, the opponens digiti minimi originates near the cuboid bone and is inserted on the fifth metatarsal bone. These three...

volar base of the phalanx distal to the joint. From there, it forms a palmar continuation of the articular surface of the phalanx bone and its inner surface...

generally performed on the first phalanx bone of each finger of one hand. After the coin has been flipped over by each phalanx, not including the smallest...

a large phorusrhacid, as well as a tarsometatarsus lower leg bone and a phalanx toe bone. The discovery of Kelenken clarified the anatomy of large phorusrhacids...