Usually means: Bones between wrist and fingers.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. metacarpus: Merriam-Webster
  2. metacarpus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metacarpus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. metacarpus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. metacarpus: Vocabulary.com
  6. metacarpus: Wordnik
  7. Metacarpus, Metacarpus, Metacarpus, Metacarpus: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. metacarpus: Wiktionary
  9. metacarpus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. metacarpus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. metacarpus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Metacarpus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Metacarpus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. metacarpus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. metacarpus: Rhymezone
  16. Metacarpus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. metacarpus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. metacarpus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. metacarpus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. metacarpus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. metacarpus: Dictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metacarpus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. metacarpus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Metacarpus: Anatomy of the Human Body
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Metacarpus: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. metacarpus: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metacarpus)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) The five bones that form the intermediate part of the hand between the fingers and the wrist.

Similar:
metacarpal, metacarpal bone, wrist, carpus, carpale, carpometatarsal, capitatum, metatarsus, capitate, trapezium bone, more...

Opposite:
phalanges, carpals, hand bones

Phrases:
vena metacarpus, more...

Adjectives:
third, distal, first, proximal, left, right, second, equine, fifth, human, large

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Similar:
metacarpal, metacarpal bone, wrist, carpus, carpale, carpometatarsal, capitatum, metatarsus, capitate, trapezium bone, more...

Opposite:
phalanges, carpals, hand bones

Phrases:
vena metacarpus, more...

Adjectives:
third, distal, first, proximal, left, right, second, equine, fifth, human, large



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