Bone · Hand
Phalanges of the hand
Phalanges manus
Reviewed by Dr. Ryan Rietz, D.P.T. and Dr. John Breyman, D.C.
The phalanges of the hand are the finger bones — three in each finger and two in the thumb, fourteen per hand. They are miniature long bones, and they contain no muscle at all: every finger movement is produced by tendons reaching in from muscles in the forearm and the palm. That is why a finger stays slim enough to be precise, and why forearm problems show up as finger problems.
Also known as
- finger bones
- thumb bones
- digits