metatarsus

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the part of a vertebrate foot between the tarsus and the toes, consisting in humans of five metatarsal bones

   The runner fractured a bone in the metatarsus of her right foot.

Borrowed from New Latin metatarsus, formed from Greek meta-, 'after or beyond,' and tarsos, 'flat surface of the foot.' The anatomical term was modeled on metacarpus.

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