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Meta Bones Prefix English Generally Means Medicine Metacarpal

word META
meaning META is a prefix in English that generally means “behind” or “beyond.” In medicine, for example, the metacarpal bones are the hand bones that come right after, or beyond, the carpal or wrist bones. And metalanguage is language used to talk about language, which requires going beyond normal language.

Tags: mwvb::root, mwvb::unit:21, mwvb::unit:21:root, obsidian_to_anki

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