Group · Skeletal system
Phalanges of hand
Phalanges manus
- System
- Skeletal system
- Part of
- Bones of free part of upper limb
DescriptionUnreviewed
The phalanges (singular: phalanx) are digital bones in the hands and feet of most vertebrates.
In primates, the thumbs and big toes have two phalanges while the other digits have three phalanges.
The phalanges are classed as long bones.
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Names
- Latin
- Phalanges manus
- English
- Phalanges of hand
- French
- Phalanges de la main
- Spanish
- Falanges de la mano
- Portuguese
- Falanges da mão
In the same group
- Capitate bone
- Distal phalanx of fifth finger of hand
- Distal phalanx of first finger of hand
- Distal phalanx of fourth finger of hand
- Distal phalanx of second finger of hand
- Distal phalanx of third finger of hand
- Fifth metacarpal bone
- First metacarpal bone
- Fourth metacarpal bone
- Hamate bone
- Humerus
- Lunate bone
- Middle phalanx of fifth finger of hand
- Middle phalanx of fourth finger of hand
- Middle phalanx of second finger of hand
- Middle phalanx of third finger of hand
- Pisiform bone
- Proximal phalanx of fifth finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of first finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of fourth finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of second finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of third finger of hand
- Radius
- Scaphoid bone
- Second metacarpal bone
- Third metacarpal bone
- Trapezium bone
- Trapezoid bone
- Triquetrum bone
- Ulna