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Musculoskeletal System > Skeleton > Joints > Hand Joints > Metacarpophalangeal Joint

Preferred term

Metacarpophalangeal Joint  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Narrower concepts

Note

  • primates only

Scope note

  • The articulation between a metacarpal bone and a phalanx.

History note

  • 1990(1977); was see under FINGER JOINT 1977-1989

In other languages

  • sormen tyvinivel

    Finnish

  • articulatio metacarpophalangea
  • articulatio metacarpophalangealis
  • MCP
  • MCP-nivel
  • MCP-nivelet
  • metakarpofalangeaalinivel
  • metakarpofalangeaalinivelet
  • rystynivel
  • rystynivelet
  • sormien tyvinivelet
  • Metakarpofalangealled

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008662

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