The second distinguishing characteristic of eudromaeosaurs is an expanded and enlarged heel on the last bone in the second toe (phalange), which bore the enlarged, sickle-like toe claw.
The phalangeal formula is 2-3-3-2-4, meaning that the innermost finger (phalange) has two bones, the next has three, etc.
If only time-travel were possible, how happy some late twentieth-century politicians would be in the phalange !
The phalange would be an autonomous democracy and the centralized state would wither away as more phalanges were created.
Part (lower) and counterpart (upper) showing sharply defined digit and phalange impressions.
In 1596 a phalange was built, which was meant to accommodate the patients suffering from venereal and contagious diseases.
Opposition refers specifically the ability to swing the first metacarpal such that the tip of the thumb may touch the distal end of the 5th phalange.
The most remarkable is a drilled horse phalange, wholly ornamented and probably representing a female figure.
