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metacarpus Definition

meta·car·pus (-kärpəs)

noun pl. metacarpi -·pi′ (-pī′)

  1. the part of the hand consisting of the five bones between the wrist and the fingers
  2. the corresponding part of a land vertebrate's forelimb

Etymology: ModL, altered < metacarpium < Gr metakarpion < meta, meta- + karpion, dim. of karpos: see carpus