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brachymesophalangia

brachymesophalangia noun: the condition of having a short middle phalanx, often of the fifth digit on the hand.

Noun

brachymesophalangia (uncountable)

  1. The condition of having a short middle phalanx, often of the fifth digit on the hand.
    • The serial records of both mongoloid and normal children show a remarkable stability for each individual in both the site and the degree of clinodactyly and the extent of brachymesophalangia.1961, Acta paediatrica scandinavica
    • Roentgenogram showing malformation in second and third radiants, with brachymesophalangia and brachybasophalangia.1966, Chinese Medical Journal
    Synonyms:
    BMP

Examples of brachymesophalangia in a sentence

  • Of all the bones in the upper extremity, the middle segment of the 5th digit is most variable and subject to brachymesophalangia, camptodactyly and clinodactyly.1970, Stanley Marion Garn, The earlier gain and the later loss of cortical bone, in nutritional perspective:
  • He noted brachymesophalangia of the thumb and middle finger.2012, A. Wackenheim, Cheirolumbar Dysostosis: Developmental Brachycheiry and Stenosis of the Bony Vertebral Lumbar Canal, Springer Science...
  • X-rays of both right and left hands showing symmetric involvement of the ulnar three digits with brachymetacarpia and brachymesophalangia.2014, Ghazi M. Rayan, Joseph Upton III, Congenital Hand Anomalies and Associated Syndromes, Springer, →ISBN, page 284:
  • The most common morphologic variant of the middle phalanx is brachymesophalangia, characterized by an abbreviated and occasionally broadened middle phalanx.2016, R. Shane Tubbs, Mohammadali M. Shoja, Marios Loukas, Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation, John Wiley &...

Synonyms of brachymesophalangia

Origin of brachymesophalangia

From brachy- + meso- + -phalangia.

Questions about brachymesophalangia

What does brachymesophalangia mean?
Brachymesophalangia means the condition of having a short middle phalanx, often of the fifth digit on the hand.
How do you use brachymesophalangia in a sentence?
Of all the bones in the upper extremity, the middle segment of the 5th digit is most variable and subject to brachymesophalangia, camptodactyly and clinodactyly.
What part of speech is brachymesophalangia?
Brachymesophalangia is a noun.

Words near brachymesophalangia in the dictionary

  1. brachylaimids
  2. brachylogy
  3. brachylophosaurin
  4. brachylophosaurins
  5. brachymelia
  6. brachymesophalangia
  7. brachymesophalangy
  8. brachymetacarpalia
  9. brachymetacarpaly
  10. brachymetacarpia
  11. brachymetapody

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