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a finger bone moonlighting as Phoebe Buffay's most beloved fake airplane passenger.
means A phalange is any of the small bones that make up the fingers and toes (the singular of phalanges).
from From Latin 'phalanx,' borrowed straight from the Greek 'phalanx' — the tight, bristling rectangle of soldiers who marched shoulder to shoulder with their spears overlapping. Anatomists, eyeing the neat row of little bones lined up in a finger or toe, saw the same disciplined formation and lifted the military word to name them. So every digit, in a sense, carries its own ranked battalion of bone.
- count
- humans pack fourteen per hand and foot
- thumb deal
- thumbs and big toes get only two
- friends fame
- Phoebe's imaginary plane stranger Mrs. Phalange
- name root
- from Greek for battle line formation
- hidden hinge
- every knuckle bend is a phalange flexing
phalange bones human hand — 14 bones total in fingers (2 in thumb, 3 in each other finger)
phalange bones human foot — 14 bones total in toes (2 in big toe, 3 in each other toe)
spanish phalange party — fascist political party founded 1933 by josé antonio primo de rivera