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
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The part of the hand between the wrist and the fingers, the palm; the five metacarpal bones collectively which form the skeleton of this part.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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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