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Sports Science and Medicine: interphalangeal joint

A synovial, hinge-joint between adjacent phalanges, permitting flexion and extension.

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n.

Any of the hinge joints between the phalanges of the fingers or toes. Also called interphalangeal joint, phalangeal joint.

 
 

 

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