Crossword-Solution: METATARSUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metatarsus | n. | That part of the skeleton of the hind or lower limb between the tarsus and phalanges; metatarse. It consists, in the human foot, of five bones. See Illustration in Appendix. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “METATARSUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| The bones of the foot between the ankle and the toes | 1 answer |
| BONES of the foot | 4 answers |
| Leg Bone | 11 answers |
| Ankle bone | 13 answers |
| Foot part | 22 answers |
| FOOT bone(s) | 25 answers |
| BONE of the human body | 41 answers |
| Bone | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with METATARSUS (5)
Saviard informs us that he saw a patient at the Hotel Dieu who had a horn like that of a ram, instead of a nail, on each great toe, the extremities of which were turned to the metatarsus and overlapped the whole of the other toes of each foot.
There seem at first to be no tarsal bones; and only one bone, divided at the end into three heads for the three toes which are attached to it, appears in the place of the metatarsus.
The line "a' a'" in the foot indicates the boundary between the tarsus and metatarsus; "b' b'" marks that between the metatarsus and the proximal phalanges; and "c' c'" bounds the ends of the distal phalanges; 'ca', the calcaneum; 'as', the astragalus; 'sc', the scaphoid bone in the tarsus.] The skeleton of the hand exhibits, in the region which we term the wrist, and which is technically called the 'carpus'--two rows of closely fitted polygonal bones, four in each row, which are tolerably equal in size.
The metatarsus is tatued with broad bars, IWA, very like the foot tatu of Kayan women of the slave or of the middle class; lines known as JANGO encircle the ankle.
The line "a' a'" in the foot indicates the boundary between the tarsus and metatarsus; "b' b'" marks that between the metatarsus and the proximal phalanges; and "c' c'" bounds the ends of the distal phalanges; 'ca', the calcaneum; 'as', the astragalus; 'sc', the scaphoid bone in the tarsus.) The skeleton of the hand exhibits, in the region which we term the wrist, and which is technically called the 'carpus'--two rows of closely fitted polygonal bones, four in each row, which are tolerably equal in size.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1987).