metatarsus
the part of a foot or hind limb, especially its bony structure, included between the tarsus and the toes or phalanges.
Origin of metatarsus
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How to use metatarsus in a sentence
The bones on which this species is founded are a pair of ulnae, one radius, four metatarsi, and one coracoid.
Extinct Birds | Walter RothschildMessrs. Newton and Gadow describe this species from four metatarsi, three tibiae, and two humeri.
Extinct Birds | Walter RothschildCoxa I with two spines; metatarsi without stout spurs at tips, only slender hairs.
Handbook of Medical Entomology | William Albert RileyThe hind metatarsi are curved in at the calamistrum (fig. 499).
The Common Spiders of the United States | James Henry EmertonThe two tarso-metatarsi are in poor condition; the right one measuring 42 mm.
Extinct Birds | Walter Rothschild
British Dictionary definitions for metatarsus
/ (ˌmɛtəˈtɑːsəs) /
the skeleton of the human foot between the toes and the tarsus, consisting of five long bones
the corresponding skeletal part in other vertebrates
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