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metatarsal
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Word definitions for metatarsal in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to the metatarsus; "metatarsal bones"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1739, from metatarsus (1670s), from Modern Latin metatarsus , from meta- (see meta- ) + tarsus (see tarsus ). As a noun from 1854.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of the metatarsus. n. Any of the bones of the metatarsus.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metatarsal \Met`a*tar"sal\, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the metatarsus. -- n. A metatarsal bone.
Usage examples of metatarsal.
A jagged ivory metatarsal protruded from bloodied purplish flaps of skin.
He was pleased to find, when he finally did, that he was suffering from a broken metatarsal for which the Stockade doc sent him up to the prison ward at the Station Hospital with a report on how a rock had fallen on his foot while at work on the rockpile.
I measured its length and breadth, then the length of a metatarsal, and jotted the figures onto a form in the disaster victim packet, and onto a page in a spiral pad.
But it lay lodged between the metatarsals, inducing pain whether the foot was in use or not.
Every niche was filled with them - skulls, thigh-bones, tiny metatarsals, fragments and splinters.
The draw of his lips on her metatarsals tugged at her pussy, and it answered with a rush of moisture.
One hand raised two inches from where it lay on the bloody cape, then fell back, tarsals and metatarsals separating, a scattering of tiny bones, as the radial tendon dissolved.
But it lay lodged between the metatarsals, inducing pain whether the foot was in use or not.
A bone bruise, and a small bone cyst, under the end of the first metatarsal, the bone in the foot which joins up with the base of the big toe.
Metatarsals, scapulas, and patellas traced bizarre mosaics across the ceiling.