noun

• 1Anatomy
  

  another term for phalanx (sense 2)

  ‘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.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘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.