phalange

The true miser has always a thumb cramped towards the hand, and the nail phalange as a rule slightly turned in, as if the mind wanted to grab hold or retain.

From Palmistry for All by Cheiro

The dwelling-place of a phalange will be called a phalanstère—an edifice commodious and elegant, wherein, while the convenient distribution of the interior will be first considered, the claims of architecture will not be forgotten.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

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 Arnold Henry Savage Landor

The first digit would then only carry one phalange, and would not terminate in a claw, but lie in the line of the tendon which supports the anterior wing membrane of a bird.

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

The first joint or nail phalange of the thumb, when long and thin, denotes the opposite of the above characteristics.

From Palmistry for All by Cheiro

She uses it to tap fatefully on trees and listen for the tiny movements of tasty grubs within, which she then extracts using those same Nosferatu phalanges.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

On Sunday, Barker shared graphic photos of his blood-stained pants and sanguinary phalanges, which took a beating after Blink-182’s set in Manchester, England.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

I'd start with a small, manageable story: one hand has twenty-seven bones, split into three types—the carpals, the metacarpals, and the slippery phalanges.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022

Figure 29.15 This drawing shows the bones of the human foot and ankle, including the metatarsals and the phalanges.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

We have five fingers because we have descended from a Devonian fish that had five phalanges or bones in its fins.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan