Metatarsals definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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There is a series of metatarsals, and then come four digits of three phalanges each Such a resemblance as exists between one vertebra and another in the rabbit, or between the humerus and the femur, is called serial homology; the two things correspond with each other to the extent of imperfect reduplication.

—Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata

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But it isn't just the wobble that's the worry, non-stop heel-wearing also raises the risk of bunions, damage to the metatarsals and an increased risk of hammer or mallet toe. — Top stories from Times Online
Just look after your metatarsals between now and June 2010, fella. — TEAMtalk Football News
I went to step across the edge of a spa on my way to the pool, my left foot slipped, my right foot went into the spa and lodged securely between the side of the spa and the bar which ran along its edge and then I fell back over the top of it - a freak accident which saw all the metatarsals broken and one in particular severely displaced. — Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
On both occasions, those dreaded broken metatarsals undermined him, breaking one in Portugal and struggling to recover from one before Germany. — TEAMtalk Football News
In cutting through the first and fifth metatarsals, remember to apply the bone-pliers obliquely, not transversely, so as to avoid unseemly projection 4. — A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners