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Webster 1913 Edition

Metapodiale

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Metˊa-poˊdi-a′le

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Noun.

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pl.

Metapodialia

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(Anat.)

One of the bones of either the metacarpus or metatarsus.

Definition 2024

metapodiale

metapodiale

English

Noun

metapodiale ‎(plural metapodialia)

(anatomy) One of the bones of either the metacarpus or metatarsus.
- 1907, William Corless Mills, Explorations of the Edwin Harness mound (page 56)
  The bone usually employed in making the needle was the metapodiale bone of the deer and elk.