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Definition of Metacarpals
1. metacarpal [n] - See also: metacarpal
Medical Definition of Metacarpals
1. Five cylindrical bones extending from the wrist to the fingers. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metacarpals
Literary usage of Metacarpals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dislocations and Joint-fractures by Frederic Jay Cotton (1910)
"Where the metacarpals of the fingers base of the first metacarpal outward.
How to out. 1 he turning of the hand is incomplete or Fig."643. ..."
2. Infections of the Hand: A Guide to the Surgical Treatment of Acute and by Allen Buckner Kanavel (1921)
"... AND SECOND metacarpals. NOTE.—These injections were made to determine the
relation of these spaces to the thenar space and the remainder of the ..."
3. An introduction to the osteology of the mammalia: Being the Substance of the by William Henry Flower (1876)
"104) in which only two digits are functionally developed ; and as the metacarpals
are very long, ..."
4. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1881)
"The metacarpals and metatarsals are relatively shorter than in the cat. The pollex
is more developed, but the hallux is very different, being completely Fig ..."
5. A Laboratory Manual of Anthropometry by Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1920)
"The metacarpals and Phalanges. In these bones, as in the hand, the most obvious
measurements are, first of all, the total lengths of the separate bones, ..."
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