Phalanges in a sentence

The heavier phalanges faced issues that Alexander's phalanges never experienced, which can only be explained by the fact that their equipment was now too heavy to fight in good order.

The joints between the phalanges are called interphalangeal and those between the metatarsus and phalanges are called metatarsophalangeal (MTP).

These may be the small bone fingers called the phalanges or the long palm bones called the metacarpals.

As with the fingers, the toes are also called the digits, phalanges, and phalangeal area.

At the ankle, the tendon divides into four that stretch across the foot to the dorsal aponeuroses of the last phalanges of the four lateral toes.

Between the toes, the dorsal and plantar interossei stretch from the metatarsals to the proximal phalanges of digits two to five.

Compared with these robust tyrannosaurines, albertosaurines had slender builds, with proportionately smaller skulls and longer bones of the lower leg ( tibia ) and feet ( metatarsals and phalanges ).

Deep flexor muscles straighten the terminal phalanges, so the claws protrude from their sheaths, and the soft "velvety" paw becomes suddenly converted into a formidable weapon.

Flexor digitorum brevis arise inferiorly on the calcaneus and its three tendons are inserted into the middle phalanges of digits two to four (sometimes also the fifth digit).

Human hands contain fourteen digital bones, also called phalanges, or phalanx bones : two in the thumb (the thumb has no middle phalanx) and three in each of the four fingers.

Lastly, the flexor digitorum brevis arises from underneath the calcaneus to insert its tendons on the middle phalanges of digit 2-4.

One individual with seven fingers not only used them but claimed that they "gave him some advantages in playing the piano". citation Phalanges are commonly fractured.

Platzer 2004, p 272 render Central muscle group: The four lumbricals arise on the medial side of the tendons of flexor digitorum longus and are inserted on the medial margins of the proximal phalanges.

The brevis acts to plantar flex the middle phalanges.

The Phalanges, allies to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), were ordered by the IDF to clear out Sabra and Shatila from Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) fighters, as part of the IDF maneuvering into West Beirut.

The stress fractures in the foot bones "were distributed to the proximal phalanges " and occurred across all three weight-bearing toes in "statistically indistinguishable" numbers.

The three plantar interossei arise with their single heads on the medial side of the third-fifth metatarsals and are inserted on the bases of the first phalanges of these digits.

Using this method, the ages of mountain yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa) were studied, the phalanges of the toes showing seasonal lines where growth slows in winter.