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hypophalangial

hypophalangial adjective: suffering from or pertaining to hypophalangia; lacking one or more digital phalanges.

Adjective

hypophalangial (comparative more hypophalangial, superlative most hypophalangial)

  1. (rare) Suffering from or pertaining to hypophalangia; lacking one or more digital phalanges.
    • I think very briefly of the late Cosgrove Watt. I think of the hypophalangial Grief-Therapist.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 16

Forms of hypophalangial

comparativemore hypophalangial
superlativemost hypophalangial

Origin of hypophalangial

From hypophalangia + -al.

Questions about hypophalangial

What does hypophalangial mean?
Hypophalangial means suffering from or pertaining to hypophalangia; lacking one or more digital phalanges.
What part of speech is hypophalangial?
Hypophalangial is an adjective.

Words near hypophalangial in the dictionary

  1. hypoperistaltic
  2. hypopermeability
  3. hypophagia
  4. hypophagic
  5. hypophalangia
  6. hypophalangial
  7. hypophalangy
  8. hypopharyngeal
  9. hypopharynges
  10. hypopharynx
  11. hypopharynxes

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