The bones in your fingers are called phalanges. Each finger has three phalanges, except the thumb, which has two phalanges. A broken, or fractured, finger occurs when one or more of these bones ...

Each finger has three bones, or phalanges, except for the thumb, which instead has two phalanges. The first bone — the distal phalange — extends from the tip of the thumb to the knuckle.

The finger bones are made up of 14 narrow bones called phalanges. Each of the four fingers consists of a proximal, middle, and distal phalanx. The thumb has a proximal and distal phalanx only.

This child also had eight fingers on one hand: Plain radiograph of wrist joint shows polydactyly with duplication of ulna, duplication of ulnar side of carpal bones, metacarpals and phalanges, ...

Mallet finger is an injury that causes the tip of a finger or thumb to droop. ... A 2022 article notes that each finger has three bones, called phalanges, and each thumb has two.

That suggests Neanderthals evolved subtle differences in the shape of their finger bones (phalanges) sometime after they branched off from Denisovans around 410,000 years ago.

Some of our bones are easy to see. The zygomatic bones that give our cheeks shape, the delicate phalanges of our fingers, and the bony bulbs that are our kneecaps all stand out from beneath the flesh.