"Distally" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... except the first, or pollex, of three small bones— the phalanges, only the proximal of which appear in the figure. The ulna has a hook-like head, the olecranon (o.) which distinguishes it easily from the distally thickened radius. The limb is attached to the body through the intermediation of the shoulder-blade (scapula, sc.) a flattened bone with a median external ridge with a hook-like termination, the acromion (acr.). There ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells |
