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Where is metacarpals bone located?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

The metacarpals are the bones that are more or less buried in the palms of the hands (one of them, the one that allows you to fold your thumb across your palm, is more mobile than the other four in each hand).

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