METACARPUS
\mˌɛtəkˈɑːpəs], \mˌɛtəkˈɑːpəs], \m_ˌɛ_t_ə_k_ˈɑː_p_ə_s]\
Definitions of METACARPUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
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That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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The part of the hand comprised between the carpus and fingers. It is composed of five parallel bones, called metacarpal; forming the back of the hand, externally and the palm internally.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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