metacarpus

metacarpus

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)pəs

Noun

metacarpus (plural metacarpi)

1. (anatomy) The five bones that form intermediate part of the hand between the fingers and the wrist.

Derived terms

• metacarpal
• metacarpally

Translations

five bones of the palm

Arabic: مُشْط اَلْيَد‎ m (mušṭ al-yad) Egyptian Arabic: مشط الإيد‎ m (mešṭ el-ʾīd) Belarusian: пясць f (pjascʹ) Catalan: metacarp m Chinese: Mandarin: 掌骨 (zh) (zhǎnggǔ) Czech: záprstí n Finnish: kämmenluut pl French: métacarpe (fr) m Galician: metacarpo (gl) m

German: Mittelhand (de) f Hungarian: kézközép (hu) Icelandic: miðhönd f, miðhandarbein (is) n Italian: metacarpo (it) m Polish: śródręcze (pl) n Portuguese: metacarpo (pt) m Russian: пясть (ru) f (pjastʹ) Spanish: metacarpo (es) m Swedish: mellanhand (sv) c Ukrainian: п'я́сток m (pʺjástok), п'ясть f (pʺjastʹ)

See also

• bone