What's the difference between array and phalanx?

Array


Definition:

  • (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
  • (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
  • (n.) An imposing series of things.
  • (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
  • (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
  • (n.) The panel itself.
  • (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  • (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
  • (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
  • (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ordering of these filaments into a parallel array is the basis of birefringence in the A region, and loss of birefringence is therefore a measure of decreased order.
  • (2) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
  • (3) For trials in which the target was present in the array, RT functions were roughly symmetric, the shortest RTs being for extreme distractor ratios, and the longest RTs being for arrays in which there were an equal number of each distractor type.
  • (4) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (5) The cellular groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus (TUMM) are positioned at the interface between the lateral and the medial hypothalamus, and form an array of cellular groups indicated in our study as the intermediate division of the hypothalamus.
  • (6) No decisive numerical criterion was found that could be used to separate normal from abnormal copper concentrations because of this continuous array.
  • (7) NK cells mediate their cytotoxicity against tumor cells through abroad array of cytotoxic and cytostatic proteins.
  • (8) Several characteristics of plasma membrane (caveolae, rectilinear arrays, intramembranous particles) and sarcoplasmic reticulum which show fiber type differences in the adult ALD and PLD muscles are compared in the developmental stages.
  • (9) Avi Loeb, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, who heads the advisory board, said that to power the spacecraft, researchers have to work out how to link lasers into one massive array.
  • (10) Gap junctions were of different sizes and frequently composed of a small number of connexons organized in polygonal aggregates or linear arrays.
  • (11) Lens fibres were found to possess a varied array of well defined interlocking processes.
  • (12) The stimuli were presented in a spatial array so that the spatial (left-right) order never corresponded with the temporal (first-last) order.
  • (13) The isolated outer sheath was observed as a triple-layered, closed vesicle carrying a polygonal array by electron microscopy.
  • (14) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (15) Under conditions of chemotaxis with activated serum beneath the filter, the neutrophil population oriented at the filter surface with nuclei located away from the stimulus, centrioles and associated radial array of microtubules beneath the nuclei, and microfilament-rich pseudopods penetrating the filter pores.
  • (16) Nomograms for square planar arrays spanning the range from 3 X 3 cm to 10 X 10 cm were developed.
  • (17) The STM topographical arrays and the molecular dimensions obtained are in good quantitative agreement with the corresponding X-ray crystallographic data.
  • (18) Ultrastructurally, they consist of membranous arrays which often are of the "zebra body" variety.
  • (19) Each sarcomere position is stored in a three-dimensional (3-D) matrix array from which Fraunhofer light diffraction patterns have been calculated using numerical methods based on Fourier transforms.
  • (20) Absorbance changes were monitored with a 124-element photodiode array, while extracellular electrodes monitored activity of the 6 buccal nerves.

Phalanx


Definition:

  • (n.) A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.
  • (n.) Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.
  • (n.) A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.
  • (n.) One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.
  • (n.) A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Five cases of mycetoma of bone involving patella, shaft of tibia, medial malleolus, calcaneum and phalanx of great toe are presented.
  • (2) He built up a phalanx of support in the parliamentary party.
  • (3) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
  • (4) Fractures of the neck of phalanx showed no remodelling at all and if deformity is not corrected it is probably permanent.
  • (5) That is, the first metatarsal head moves within a stable support comprised of the base of the proximal phalanx, the sesamoids, soft tissue, and muscle tendons.
  • (6) Placed around the phalanx, overlapped, and sutured, the 15 mm segment formely over the fourth dorsal compartment has been positioned over the flexor tendod.
  • (7) Also in the Lords amongst the phalanx of red leather benches is a solitary seat curbed by an armrest provided for a perpetually drunken Lord (hence the saying?)
  • (8) The tendon is threaded through a hole in the distal phalanx from the dorsal to the palmar side and impacted like a cork to create an immediate strong fixation.
  • (9) The same result applies for its tendon which inserts at the distal phalanx of the hallux.
  • (10) Laboratory evidence indicating the presence of generalized fibrous osteitis, such as subperiosteal resorption on phalanx roentgenograms and high serum alkaline phosphatase level, along with marked elevation of the plasma immunoreactive parathyroid hormone level, proved to be a good indicator for medically uncontrollable secondary hyperparathyroidism.
  • (11) Acroosteolysis (endphalanx) and intracortical or endosteal resorption (middle phalanx) were less specific (i.e., seen even in the absence of metabolic bone disease) and correlated less with bone histology.
  • (12) The nail pigmentation appears over the distal bony phalanx where the deep matrix covered by the proximal nail fold is exposed to friction or pressure of the narrowing portion of the tip of the shoe.
  • (13) An anatomical peculiarity allows the hand to be positioned so that the terminal phalanx of the middle finger cannot be moved by voluntary effort.
  • (14) In our cases, the c triradii were distal to the proximal phalanx, near the fourth M-P joint.
  • (15) A case of irreducible complete dorsoulnar dislocation of the proximal phalanx of the thumb is presented.
  • (16) The flag flap, elevated from the dorsal aspect of the proximal phalanx, may be employed as a one-stage procedure to cover a loss of soft tissue on the volar aspect of the adjacent finger, the staff of the flap running over an oblique web-space incision.
  • (17) The terminal tuft of the distal phalanx is destroyed by pressure erosion.
  • (18) The authors believe that patients presenting with a subungual hematoma involving greater than one half of the nail surface and a fracture of the distal phalanx should have the nail lifted and the nail bed explored and repaired.
  • (19) To attain accurate reduction in the proximal phalanx as opposed to the other phalanges, we have found open reduction and internal fixation to be necessary in a large proportion of cases in our series.
  • (20) This procedure decreases the likelihood of dorsal necrosis over the middle phalanx, since the dorsal neurovascular bundle is not encroached upon.