"metacarpus" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: metacarpi [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəs Head templates: {{en-noun|metacarpi}} metacarpus (plural metacarpi)
  1. (anatomy) The five bones that form the intermediate part of the hand between the fingers and the wrist. Wikipedia link: metacarpus Categories (topical): Anatomy Derived forms: metacarpal, metacarpally Related terms: bone Translations (five bones of the palm): مُشْط اَلْيَد (mušṭ al-yad) [masculine] (Arabic), مشط الإيد (mešṭ el-ʔīd) [Egyptian-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), пясць (pjascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), костите на дланта (kostite na dlanta) (Bulgarian), metacarp [masculine] (Catalan), 掌骨 (zhǎnggǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), záprstí [neuter] (Czech), metakarpo (Esperanto), kämmenluut [plural] (Finnish), métacarpe [masculine] (French), metacarpo [masculine] (Galician), Mittelhand [feminine] (German), kézközép (Hungarian), miðhönd [feminine] (Icelandic), miðhandarbein [neuter] (Icelandic), metacarpo [masculine] (Italian), śródręcze [neuter] (Polish), metacarpo [masculine] (Portuguese), пясть (pjastʹ) [feminine] (Russian), metacarpo [masculine] (Spanish), mellanhand [common-gender] (Swedish), п'я́сток (pʺjástok) [masculine] (Ukrainian), п'ясть (pʺjastʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-metacarpus-en-noun-1SRFDJTj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
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