‘See, the fracture occurred in the lower phalange of my left ring finger - a sliver of bone snapped off from the knuckle where the tendons connect.’
‘After the Sayee is over at Marwah you have to get a hair cut or a head shave; women have to have only their hair cut from at least three place the length of one phalange of her finger, approximately 1 or 1.5 inches.’
‘Radiographs of the fingertips of rock climbers, for example, show unusual bony spurs and thickened phalanges.’
2
(also Phalange)
A right-wing Maronite party in Lebanon founded in 1936 by Pierre Gemayel.
Origin
Mid 19th century back-formation from phalanges, plural of phalanx. phalange (sense 2) is a shortening of French Phalanges Libanaises ‘Lebanese phalanxes’.
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