metacarpals

Their column-shaped hands were bizarre fingerless stumps, and they walked on the distal ends of the metacarpals, which is pretty odd to say the least.

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

Attached to the metacarpals are the bones of the fingers and thumb.

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

An "opponens" muscle is one which passes from the bones of the wrist to one or other of the bones of the middle of the hand called metacarpals, and the opponens pollicis passes of course, as its name implies, to the metacarpal of the pollex or thumb.

The Common Frog 1874

Her eyes were like saucers, staring in exposed horror across the table at the woman who struggled with the mind-shattering pain of her decimated metacarpals.

Three Corpse Brunch: Part One 2010

Intern “Well, you have at least one and possibly two broken metacarpals.”

Assholes Finish First Tucker Max 2010

The village square (which, like all village squares I had ever seen, was not square at all, but roughly oblong) formed the carpals and metacarpals of the hand, while the several lanes of cottages made up the phalangeal joints of the fingers.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

In the forelimb, a single humerus was joined to two bones, the radius and ulna, joined to lots of little bones, which we tetrapods would call carpals, metacarpals and fingers.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

The bag's hovering is spooky, but the guy's hand does look weird, most of his fingers are hidden, but it looks like he has metacarpals for five fingers, not four.

SF Magazine: Rehabilitation? Cosmo7 2009

In the forelimb, a single humerus was joined to two bones, the radius and ulna, joined to lots of little bones, which we tetrapods would call carpals, metacarpals and fingers.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

This raises the question as to why a bowed first metacarpal was needed ‘to help support the claw’ however, given that other sauropods with thumb claws had straight, rather than bowed, first metacarpals.

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006