September 6th, 2007
Anatomy of confusion
The summer holidays are nearly over, perhaps very over for some of you, that’s why I thought a little anatomy test would be good for getting the old brain working again.
Seriously though, does anyone know?
I suspect there probably isn’t a common colloquial term, so feel to tell me what you call them.
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I call them knuckles as well. The Merriam-Webster dictionary seems to back me up on that, but Wiktionary doesn’t.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/knuckle
I call them “easily broken”.
But I think that they are reffered to as knuckles as well or joints.
The word “metatarsils” comes to mind.
But I suspect that that’s just because my mind is a bit like a sponge sometimes. I remember strange random things.
Metatarsils are the long bones in your foot (or hand, not sure).
They break easily to.
Having just taken an Anatomy and Physiology course in college, I can tell you that they’re called “metatarsal-phalangeal articulations.” Not nearly as easy to pronounce, nor as easy to make puns with.
Metacarpals are the ones in the hand, metatarsals in the foot, just fyi.
I never thought about it, but now I want to call them f**kles.
I suspected they were called ‘knuckles’ also, but somehow, this doesn’t do them justice… you tell someone that you’ve scraped you knuckles and they immediately think of hands.
Similarly, the bones (good call Roo) don’t have a catchy enough name to be used in conversation.
GW, I like the compounding of ‘foot’ and ‘knuckles’ there.
‘Chuckles’ was also suggested to me this afternoon.
Phalanges! That’s a good word as well. Hope I spelled it right.
F**kles?
F**kles. definitely f**kles.