Usually means: Bones connecting fingers to wrist.
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  1. metacarpi: Merriam-Webster
  2. metacarpi: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metacarpi: Collins English Dictionary
  4. metacarpi: Vocabulary.com
  5. metacarpi: Wiktionary
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  1. metacarpi: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. metacarpi: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. metacarpi: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metacarpus)

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