metacarpal

English

Etymology

From metacarpus +‎ -al or metacarp- +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

enPR: mĕt′ə-kär′pəl^[1]
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛt.əˈkɑː.pəl/
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛt.əˈkɑɹ.pəl/
Audio (California): (file)
(General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌmet.əˈkɐː.pəl/
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛt.əˈkaɹ.pəl/
(India) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛʈ.aˈkaːʳ.pal/
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəl
Hyphenation: met‧a‧car‧pal^[1]

Adjective

metacarpal (not comparable)

Of the metacarpus.

Derived terms

Translations

of the metacarpus

Bulgarian: предкитков (predkitkov)
Catalan: metacarpià
Chinese:
Mandarin: 掌骨的 (zhǎnggǔ de)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: kämmen-
French: métacarpien (fr)
Icelandic: miðhandar-, handarbaks-
Latin: please add this translation if you can
Polish: śródręczny (pl)
Portuguese: metacarpal
Russian: пястно́й (ru) (pjastnój), метакарпа́льный (metakarpálʹnyj)
Spanish: metacarpiano
Swedish: mellanhands-

Noun

metacarpal (plural metacarpals or metacarpalia)

(anatomy) Any of the bones of the metacarpus.
Synonym: metacarpal bone

Hypernym: bone

Translations

any of the bones of the metacarpus

Arabic: مُشْط الْيَد m (mušṭ al-yad)
Egyptian Arabic: مشط الإيد m (mešṭ el ʔiyd)
Bulgarian: предкиткова кост f (predkitkova kost)
Catalan: metacarpià m
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: kämmenluu (fi)
French: métacarpe (fr) m
German: Mittelhandknochen (de) m
Hungarian: kézközépcsont (hu)
Icelandic: miðhandarbein (is) n, hnúaleggur m, handarbaksleggur m
Italian: metacarpo (it) m
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: hestiyên şeyê dest
Latin: os carpī n (New Latin), manus (la) f (Classical Latin hypernym)
Maori: iwi papanui
Polish: kość śródręcza f
Portuguese: metacárpico m, metacarpiano m, metacarpal m
Russian: пястна́я кость f (pjastnája kostʹ)
Spanish: metacarpiano m
Swedish: mellanhandsben (sv) n, metakarpalben (sv) n

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “metacarpal”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

“metacarpal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Portuguese

Etymology

From metacarpo (“metacarpus”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.ta.kaʁˈpaw/ [ˌmɛ.ta.kahˈpaʊ̯]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.ta.kaɾˈpaw/ [ˌmɛ.ta.kaɾˈpaʊ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.ta.kaʁˈpaw/ [ˌmɛ.ta.kaχˈpaʊ̯]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.ta.kaɻˈpaw/ [ˌmɛ.ta.kaɻˈpaʊ̯]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.tɐ.kɐɾˈpal/ [ˌmɛ.tɐ.kɐɾˈpaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.tɐ.kɐɾˈpa.li/

Hyphenation: me‧ta‧car‧pal

Noun

metacarpal m (plural metacarpais)

(anatomy) metacarpal (any bone of the metacarpus)

Holonyms

metacarpo

Related terms

Adjective

metacarpal m or f (plural metacarpais, not comparable)

metacarpal (of the metacarpus)

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /metakaɾˈpal/ [me.t̪a.kaɾˈpal]
Rhymes: -al
Syllabification: me‧ta‧car‧pal

Adjective

metacarpal m or f (masculine and feminine plural metacarpales)

metacarpal