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say it: met-uh-KAHR-puhl
metacarpal is a noun and adjective meaning "any bone of the hand between the wrist and fingers". It carries 2 recorded senses.
any bone of the hand between the wrist and fingers
of or relating to the metacarpus
“metacarpal bones”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for metacarpal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.