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what is the medical term for fingers?
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- 2 decades agoFavorite Answer
The phalanges aren't the fingers, they are the bones in your fingers.
There are twenty seven bones in your hand: eight carpals (the wrist) five metacarpals, five proximal phalanges, four medial phalanges (there's no medial in your thumb), and five distal phalanges.
The fingers are simply known as digits, from the latin 'digitorum'. I don't know the exact translation but it's to do with the fact you have ten of them.
- Anonymous6 years ago
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phalanges
forgot the first A...thanks to the person below who deserves the 10 points for spelling it correctly. :-)
