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Definition of "phalanges" []

  • A plural of phalanx. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "phalanges" in a sentence
  • "The second specimen is considerably less impressive, consisting only of two phalanges from the foot."
  • "The phalanges are the fourteen bones of the toes, -- three in each except the great toe, which, like the thumb, has two."
  • "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."