phalange

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The second phalange is concave at the upper articular end and convex in the longer direction at the lower end.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

An immense pneumatic foramen is situate in a groove on the under side of the upper end of the first phalange in Ornithocheirus, but is absent in specimens from the Kimeridge clay.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

Every claw and phalange has left its mark in the stone; while the trifid termination of the tarso-metatarsal bone leaves three marks more,—fifteen in all,—the true ornithic number.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

The palms of their hands were almost without lines, the finger-nails flat, and their thumbs stumpy with the last phalange curiously short.

From In the Forbidden Land by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage

The third phalange is the longest in the only specimen in which the finger bones are all preserved.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.