brachymesophalangia

English

Etymology

From brachy- +‎ meso- +‎ -phalangia.

Noun

brachymesophalangia (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The condition of having a short middle phalanx, often of the fifth digit on the hand.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) BMP

   • 1961, Acta paediatrica scandinavica:

     The serial records of both mongoloid and normal children show a remarkable stability for each individual in both the site and the degree of clinodactyly and the extent of brachymesophalangia.

   • 1966, Chinese Medical Journal:

     Roentgenogram showing malformation in second and third radiants, with brachymesophalangia and brachybasophalangia.

   • 1970, Stanley Marion Garn, The earlier gain and the later loss of cortical bone, in nutritional perspective:

     Of all the bones in the upper extremity, the middle segment of the 5th digit is most variable and subject to brachymesophalangia, camptodactyly and clinodactyly.

   • 2012, A. Wackenheim, Cheirolumbar Dysostosis: Developmental Brachycheiry and Stenosis of the Bony Vertebral Lumbar Canal, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN:

     Drinkwater described an eventually asymmetrical brachyhypophalangia of the index, ring and little fingers. He noted brachymesophalangia of the thumb and middle finger.

   • 2014, Ghazi M. Rayan, Joseph Upton III, Congenital Hand Anomalies and Associated Syndromes, Springer, →ISBN, page 284:

     X-rays of both right and left hands showing symmetric involvement of the ulnar three digits with brachymetacarpia and brachymesophalangia.

   • 2016, R. Shane Tubbs, Mohammadali M. Shoja, Marios Loukas, Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     The most common morphologic variant of the middle phalanx is brachymesophalangia, characterized by an abbreviated and occasionally broadened middle phalanx.