(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.
Tetrarch
Definition:
(a.) A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.