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Metatarsen & Mittelfussknochen

English translation: tarsals and metatarsals

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German term or phrase:Metatarsen & Mittelfussknochen
English translation:tarsals and metatarsals
Entered by: Merry Foxworth

11:21 Jun 21, 2004
German to English translations [PRO]
Medical (general) / Orthopaedic/Orthopaedisch
German term or phrase: Metatarsen & Mittelfussknochen
Die Signalintensität der einzelnen Mittelfussknochen sowie der einzelnen Metatarsen ist regelrecht .
Aniruddha Vishwakarma
India
Local time: 12:16
tarsals and metatarsals
Explanation:
the tarsals are the small bones including the scaphoid, navicular, and so forth. the metatarsals are the five longer bones.
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Merry Foxworth
United States
Local time: 02:46
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2tarsals and metatarsals
Merry Foxworth
3 +2Metatarses & metatarsal (bone)
Stefanie Sendelbach


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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Metatarses & metatarsal (bone)


Explanation:
Definition of "Metatarsus" (plural: "Metatarses"): the skeleton of the human foot between the toes and the tarsus; the corresponding part of the foot in birds or of the hind foot in quadrupeds

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Note added at 6 mins (2004-06-21 11:28:23 GMT)
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Well, I keep finding more and more links where \"Metatasus\" is used as English translation of \"Mittelfussknochen\". The two terms seem to have the same meaning. But then the original sentence doesn\'t make sense any more...

Stefanie Sendelbach
Germany
Local time: 08:46
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 36

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Siegfried Armbruster: Agree with sundari, metatarses and metatarsal bones are the same, this is "doppel moppel"
13 mins
agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
4 hrs
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
tarsals and metatarsals


Explanation:
the tarsals are the small bones including the scaphoid, navicular, and so forth. the metatarsals are the five longer bones.

Merry Foxworth
United States
Local time: 02:46
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 174
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nuru: Exactly
1 hr
agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
4 hrs
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