Usually means: Bones between wrist and fingers.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. metacarpal bones: Vocabulary.com
  2. Metacarpal bones: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  3. metacarpal bones: Wiktionary
  4. Metacarpal bones: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Metacarpal bones: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Metacarpal bones: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Metacarpal bones: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. Metacarpal bones: Medical dictionary

(Note: See metacarpal_bone as well.)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Metacarpal bones)

noun:  In human anatomy, the metacarpal bones or metacarpus, also known as the "palm bones", are the appendicular bones that form the intermediate part of the hand between the phalanges (fingers) and the carpal bones (wrist bones), which articulate with the forearm.


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