hypophalangial

English

Etymology

From hypophalangia +‎ -al.

Adjective

hypophalangial (comparative more hypophalangial, superlative most hypophalangial)

1. (rare) Suffering from or pertaining to hypophalangia; lacking one or more digital phalanges.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 16:

     I think very briefly of the late Cosgrove Watt. I think of the hypophalangial Grief-Therapist.