INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interphalangeal joint mean? 

• INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT (noun)
  The noun INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT has 1 sense:

1. any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers or toes

  Familiarity information: INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers or toes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("interphalangeal joint" is a kind of...):

ginglymoid joint; ginglymus; hinge joint (a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane)

 Context examples 

Interphalangeal joint located between the second and third phalanges.

(Distal Interphalangeal Joint, NCI Thesaurus)

A muscle in the forearm beginning at the head of the ulna and ending with four tendons projecting to the second, third, fourth, and fifth fingers which flexes the midcarpal, metacarpophalangeal and interphalangeal joints.

(Flexor Digitorum Profundus, NCI Thesaurus)