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单词 metacondylus
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metacondylusn.

Inflections: Plural metacondyli.
Forms:

α. 1600s 1800s metacondylus.

β. 1800s metacondyle.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin metacondylus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin metacondylus (16th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek μετακόνδυλος (usually as plural, μετακόνδυλοι ) < ancient Greek μετα- meta- prefix + κόνδυλος knuckle (see condyle n.). N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation (metăkǫ·ndilɒ̆s) /mɛtəˈkɒndɪləs/.
Anatomy. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
The distal phalanx of a finger.
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1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 196 Metacondyli are the utmost Bones of the Fingers.
1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Metacondyle.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Metacondylus, term for the last joint of a finger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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