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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 345 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHALANX (Gr. /&Xa'y, , of unknown origin)  , the name, in See also:Greek See also:history of the arrangement of heavy-armed See also:infantry in a single See also:close See also:mass of spearmen (see See also:ARMY: History) . In See also:anatomy, the Latin plural phalanges is the See also:term applied to the bones of the See also:finger and toe, and in See also:botany to a See also:group of See also:united stamen clusters . The term " See also:phalanx " was adopted by F . C . M .

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