metatarsus
Americannoun
noun
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the skeleton of the human foot between the toes and the tarsus, consisting of five long bones
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the corresponding skeletal part in other vertebrates
Etymology
Origin of metatarsus
From New Latin, dating back to 1670–80; see origin at meta-, tarsus
Example Sentences
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A pre-Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China with long feathers on the metatarsus.
From Scientific American • Dec. 18, 2012
“Coxa, trochanter, femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus.”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
“Furthermore, each leg of mine has seven sections—the coxa, the trochanter, the femur, the patella, the tibia, the metatarsus, and the tarsus.”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
The bones of the right metatarsus show as they would under the flesh of a queenly foot.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
The portion which corresponds to that which is fleshy in the horse arises from the tibia; below, it ends on the inner surface of the superior extremity of the metatarsus and the cuneiform bones.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
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