phalange

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The first wing phalange is much longer than the others, which successively and rapidly diminish in length, so that the third is half the length of the first.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

The fourth has a long and rather slender metacarpal, and three phalanges diminishing in size, the terminal phalange being very small.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

There is some support for this interpretation; but I have not seen any English or German Pterodactyles with only one phalange in the first toe.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

The first metacarpal bone is short, as in all birds; and the first phalange scarcely lengthens that segment of the first digit of the Bird's hand to the same length as the other metacarpal bones.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.