Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated between any two successive phalanges of a finger or toe; nodal, of a digit: as, an interphalangeal articulation (one of the joints of a finger or toe).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Between phalanges.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Between
phalanges , as with an interphalangeal joint.
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Examples
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While Emma was gone, I removed each of the right digits at the level of the first interphalangeal joint.
Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006
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Over the years compensatory deformity developed in the metacarpo-phalangeal and distal interphalangeal joints.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Christelle had a ninety-degree flexion contracture in the proximal interphalangeal joint of her right little finger.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Over the years compensatory deformity developed in the metacarpo-phalangeal and distal interphalangeal joints.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Over the years compensatory deformity developed in the metacarpo-phalangeal and distal interphalangeal joints.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Christelle had a ninety-degree flexion contracture in the proximal interphalangeal joint of her right little finger.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Christelle had a ninety-degree flexion contracture in the proximal interphalangeal joint of her right little finger.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Open navicular joint does not occur, as a rule, except by way of the solar surface of the foot, and the introduction of active and virulent contagium is certain to happen; consequently, an acute synovitis quickly resulting in an intensely septic and progressively destructive arthritis soon follows in perforation of the capsule of the distal interphalangeal articulation.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Pastern proximal interphalangeal joint, inflammation of ligaments of, 129
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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This proclivity is constant; the normal interphalangeal articulation is an incomplete ginglymoid joint and while its dorso-volar diameter is great, this in no wise compensates for its disproportionately narrow transverse diameter.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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