metacarpus

met·a·car·pus  (mt-kärps)

n. pl. met·a·car·pi (-p)

1. The part of the human hand that includes the five bones between the fingers and the wrist.

2. The corresponding part of the forefoot of a quadruped.

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metacarpus

Noun

pl -pi the set of five long bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers [Greek meta after + karpos wrist]

metacarpal adjn

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

metacarpus - the part of the hand between the carpus and phalanges metacarpal, metacarpal bone - any bone of the hand between the wrist and fingers hand, manus, mitt, paw - the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt" skeletal structure - any structure created by the skeleton of an organism