phalanges
Example Sentences
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The phalanges fall into line like a picket fence with boards of varying lengths, the knuckles unknobby.
From Seattle Times
Still, what’s the appeal, one may ask, of having someone pay you to count your stretch marks, or selling pictures of your phalanges to strangers?
From New York Times
“I am pretty good at identifying human bones but human phalanges can sometimes be difficult to tell from other animals. It was a phalange that the trespasser picked up.”
From The Guardian
The putative digit bones in Panderichthys are irregular in shape, and none of them show articulation with other bones in the standard way digit bones, or phalanges, do in the human hand.
From Scientific American
She and her team recovered amber beads, belt buckles, bronze pins, teeth and phalanges.
From New York Times
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