Any bone of the hand between the wrist and fingers

Usage examples of metacarpal.

Ruminantia are fused into one common bone, except in the deerlets, which also have the two outer fore and little finger metacarpals distinct, whereas they are but rudimentary in the rest of the true ruminants, and totally absent in the camels.

And on the hand, here, the fingernails are likewise all missing, and the left second and third digits missing down to the medial metacarpals.

Paris doing research on a larva called metacercaria, a holistic healer in Oakland promising to cure aches of the metacarpal bones.

And would you find broken metacarpals, dislocated shoulder, and fracture of the olecranon process easier to explain if Mr.

The injuries were listed more specifically on the emergency room report, and Adam had to reach back into his own college physiology class to remember what all the words meant--open fracture of the left clavicle, fracture of the right olecranon process, anterior dislocation of right shoulder, fracture of ribs eight through ten left side, lacerated liver and spleen, ruptured bladder, crushed metacarpals on right hand, broken nose, laceration of scalp, face, and neck, crushed right ankle.

He was suffering from a soft sarcomatous swelling of one of the metacarpal joints, and I made him realize that it was only by losing his hand that he could hope to save his life.

He could feel his finger bones and metacarpals grinding together under a handshake that he realized too late was composed not of ordinary flesh and bone but of some powerful hydraulic mechanism sheathed in a realistic-looking fleshlike covering.

The left metacarpal bones were dislocated from the carpal bones, the left tibia was fractured, and there were contusions about the back and hips.

I know that there is already a thickening of the metacarpals and phalanges, not to mention the carpals themselves.

Blood spurted and he rolled away from me and I stamped on his right hand with my heel and shattered all the carpals and metacarpals and phalanges that he had in there.

He raised his binoculars in time to see the great kitelike wings fold on their double-jointed metacarpals, and then the Marsfalcon dropped like a stone.

The metacarpals and the carpals should both be vulnerable to a direct hit.

On the basis of height and weight he’d assumed she was around twenty-four months, he said, but the development of cartilage in the carpals and metacarpals indicated that she was closer to three.

People out therethe slobs in front of the goggle boxesshow them a few old bones and tell them they are two distal phalanges and a metacarpal from a plantigrade simian four and a half million years old, and they'll switch channels.

Like a clay mold, the soft interdigital pads at the base of her fingers had taken a clear impression of the drawer handle, and the metacarpals ached as if the red groove in her flesh were reflected in the bone beneath.