Shadow Love peeled off his jacket, wrapped a sleeve around the middle joints of his fingers and pressed on the glass, hard, harder, until it cracked.

"Let your middle joints and shoulders quit stabilizing."

As if in revolt, the fallboard slammed shut like an alligator's jaw, severing Peter's fingers at the middle joints.

Crickets have tympanic membranes located just below the middle joint of each front leg (or knee).

The middle joint didn't live up to even Laffey's personal standard of seven or eight points to make a positive identification match.

Hammertoe generally causes the middle joint of the toe to bend downward, with toes appearing raised near the foot.

Bony bumps on the middle joint of the finger are known as Bouchard's nodes.

Hammer toes are unsightly and reveal a toe that is curled due to a bend in the middle joint of the toe.

The fourth finger was always stiff, the middle joint had been crushed, and healed frozen.

They bend down at both the middle joints and at the joints nearest the tip of the toes.