The second specimen is considerably less impressive, consisting only of two phalanges from the foot. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
The phalanges are the fourteen bones of the toes, -- three in each except the great toe, which, like the thumb, has two. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Hand models also need to be more than pretty phalanges. From Wordnik.com. [High-Tech Handiwork] Reference
Volar flexion is limited by the extensors of the phalanges. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
There is volar flexion of the phalanges when the subject is at rest. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Almost all cattle phalanges and distal canon bones were chopped (figure 1). From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Faunal Remains from the Fortification Gate] Reference
These phalanges and canon bones were most probably chopped for their marrow. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Faunal Remains from the Fortification Gate] Reference
Q, carpal and meta-carpal bones, and phalanges, of digits, of manes or fore-foot. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Soft facial tissue and third phalanges lost to mutilation. 2 possible fatal wounds. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
The tiny phalanges overlay each other; they had linked hands in their last waiting. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
It is a disease of colts and may affect one or all of the phalanges at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
The bones of the foot, i.e. metatarsals and phalanges, which bear no meat, are missing. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Subsistence Studies Report 3] Reference
Adik lives in Borneo and as you can tell from his cheek phalanges, he is a dominant male. From Wordnik.com. [Orangutan Pastel] Reference
Suppose you wished to examine the phalanges of the rare Ice Man of the Svalbard Archipelago. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Wendigo] Reference
Examples of this kind are affections of the collateral (lateral) ligaments of the phalanges. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Extension of the hock in upward luxation of the patella, permits of flexion of the phalanges. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Passive movement of the phalanges in all directions is practised in order to produce crepitation. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
The bones of the foot, 26 in number, consist of the tarsal bones, the metatarsal, and the phalanges. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Each bone was copied, right down to the individual metacarpals of the hands and phalanges of the feet. From Wordnik.com. [Nemesis]
The phalanges, or finger bones, are the fourteen small bones arranged in three rows to form the fingers. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Plus now I have a cape and I cut the ends of my gloves off so you can see my phalanges, Major Victory adds. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
Split brachio-palmar plaster, covering the proximal two phalanges of the thumb, and maintained for 6 weeks. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
And even in the turtles we have eight carpal bones and five digits, while no finger has less than two phalanges. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Thus there are three phalanges in each of the lesser toes, and only two in the great toe, which answers to the thumb. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
In upward luxation, then, the leg is extended as if too long, but the phalanges may be in a state of moderate flexion. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
He wasn't sure he got all the small phalanges of the fingers exactly right, and everything was still discolored brown. From Wordnik.com. [Mortal Remains]
In other subjects, while able to stand and walk, great difficulty is experienced because of volar flexion of the phalanges. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Long spindly arms and thick bandy legs ended alike in splayed, webbed appendages—black claws arming the lengthy phalanges. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner] Reference
And his hands! what Liliputian phalanges, which Beau Brummel, or D'Orsay, or any other professional dandy might die envying!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
To his fringed leggins were attached the phalanges (or finger bones) of those victims whom he had killed with his own hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
Fracture of the phalanges is nearly always signalized by lameness, and this is marked during the period of weight bearing. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Volar flexion of the phalanges relieves tension on the parts; therefore, this position is assumed while the subject is at rest. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
And in many instances, considerable manipulation of the phalanges is necessary before the pathognomonic symptom is to be recognized. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
See plate VIII, 1, 2, 3 -- The phalanges of the Thumb: 4, 5, 6 -- Repeated on each finger, indicate the phalanges of the four fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
There he placed with his own hand the laurel, decreed by his million of phalanges, on the brow of the greatest philosopher of his age. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
The palm is of medium size, the fingers without knots, the third phalanges are all long and pointed, and the thumb is beautifully shaped. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
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