phalanx|phalanxes in English

noun

[pha·lanx || 'feɪlæŋks /'fælæŋks]

line of battle, infantry line; group; platoon; group of people standing or moving closely togethe

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1. Hoplite phalanxes usually deployed in ranks of 8 men or more deep; The Macedonian phalanxes were usually 16 men deep, sometimes reported to have been arrayed 32 men deep.

2. 18 The protesters ran into a solid phalanx of riot police.

3. Philip, though reluctant to send his phalanx into the broken, hilly terrain eventually ordered an assault with half the phalanx, 8,000 men when he heard of the Roman retreat.

4. The Macedonian line was arrayed with the heavy phalanxes in the middle, and cavalry on either side.

5. The action is furthered when the Spartan army forms a phalanx formation.

6. 5 Investigations do, however, show instances where Neanderthal Man and Cro-Magnon Man transformed phalanxes already perforated by wolf bites.

7. Although I don't recall the submarine bringing in a phalanx of new troops lately.

8. The war also proved the superiority of the Roman legion over the Greek phalanx formation.

9. Once stabilized, insert the exposed portion of the Crosstie® implant into the proximal phalanx.

10. In doing so, Epaminondas reversed the convention by which the right flank of the phalanx was strongest.

11. Lateral release of the proximal phalanx joint of the hallux with tenotomy of the adductor hallucis tendon.

12. There is one exception: Magnesia, where Attalid cavalry contributed to the encirclement and defeat of the Seleucid phalanx

13. Around 350 monks and nuns marched in two phalanxes, preceded by an Austin Westminster sedan, carrying banners printed in both English and Vietnamese.

14. The phalanx was a large, dense formation of men armed with small shields and a long pike called the sarissa.

15. Patient had an excision of rt small toe Callosity with also an excision of exostosis off of a toe phalanx

16. Kyrian level 40 Coalescing Stygia Meatball (27) Kyrian Phalanx (31) Kyrian Halberdier (31) Pelagos (33) Mikanikos (33) Worked for me

17. The Macedonian phalanx was much less able to form a shield wall, but the lengthened spears would have compensated for this.

18. Antigonus placed his phalanxes facing the Lacedaemonian infantry which was arrayed at the top of the two hills, with the order to advance and take the heights.

19. The phalanx would pin the enemy in place, while the Companion cavalry would attack the enemy on the flank or from behind.

20. An Akin is a hallux osteotomy of the proximal phalanx for the purposes of correcting an abduction deformity of the big toe

21. Both sides probably deployed their troops in a standard Macedonian formation, with the phalanx of heavy infantry in the centre of the battle line.

22. Facing the much larger army of Darius I, the Athenians thinned out their phalanx and consequently lengthened their front, to avoid being outflanked.

23. - Angulation & deforming forces: - unstable frx of the proximal phalanx typically present w/ volar Angulation (usually about 30 deg); - proximal fragment is flexed by the bony insertion of interossei into base of the proximal phalanx; - although there are no tendons inserting on the distal fragment, it tends to be pulled into hyperextension by

24. He intended to hold Antigonus' charge while using his elite Argyraspides phalanx to win in the center just as they had done at Paraitakene.

25. The Barding Phalanx are a strong choice against Mordor as they can help to counter the faction's elite Easterling units, especially the Easterling Kataphrakts