09-26-2008, 08:36 AM
In reply to PMBardunias, phalanx has too many meanings to be restricted just to a particular military use by Greeks for a few centuries. Your hands and feet are veritable phalanxes - the distal bones are 'phalanges,' named for their serried array in files and ranks.
Martin
Fac me cocleario vomere!
Fac me cocleario vomere!