Crossword-Solution: METACARPUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metacarpus | n. | That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “METACARPUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Palm bone | 1 answer |
| that part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges | 1 answer |
| HAND bone | 5 answers |
| Wrist bone | 9 answers |
| HAND and wrist, bone of the | 12 answers |
| FOOT bone(s) | 25 answers |
| BONE of the human body | 41 answers |
| Bone | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMEZAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with METACARPUS (5)
The patient exhibited a compound comminuted fracture of the right radius and ulna in their lower thirds, compound comminuted fractures of the bones of the carpus and metacarpus, with great laceration of the soft parts, laying bare the wrist-joint, besides several penetrating wounds of the arm and fore-arm.
The line 'a a' in the hand indicates the boundary between the carpus and the metacarpus; 'b b' that between the latter and the proximal phalanges; 'c c' marks the ends of the distal phalanges.
The ball had pierced my hand by the metacarpus under the index finger, and had broken the first phalanges.
The metacarpus of a large beast of prey, found at Eyziès, retains marks no less clear, and the skull of a bear front Nabrigas has in it a large wound which must have been made by a missile of some kind.
The arms are again divided: firstly into shoulder, comprising shoulder blades and collar bone; secondly into the upper arm which is one bone; thirdly into fore-arm, composed of two bones, the radius and the ulna; and fourthly into the hand, consisting of the wrist, the metacarpus of five and the fingers, which number five, of three bones each, called the phalanges, except the thumb, which hath but two.
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2006).