What's the difference between metapodia and metapodial?
Metapodia
Definition:
(pl. ) of Metapodium
Example Sentences:
(1) The disorder is characterized by a peculiar facial appearance, rib anomalies and severe shortness and distortion of individual long bones, notably the humeri, tibiae, fibulae, metapodia and phalanges with marked irregularity and asymmetry of bone changes.
Metapodial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the metapodialia, or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.
Example Sentences:
(1) The trotting category (Civettictis civetta, Ichneumia albicauda) is characterized by longer epipodials and metapodials and a more proximal position of muscle bellies.
(2) However, all dogs are consistently separated from fox-sized, wild canids by subtle but evolutionarily significant differences in olecranon, metapodial, and scapula morphology.
(3) Disproportionately short metacarpals or metatarsals in eight burial skeletons and three unusually short metapodials recovered as disturbed bones were identified in a 1500 B.C.
(4) Ichthyosis in 2 dogs was characterized by extreme hyperkeratosis on all or part of the skin and by extreme thickening of the digital and metapodial pads.
(5) Metapodial and femur measurements were gathered on 8 female and 12 male western European elk (Alces alces [L. 1758] alces) skeletons in four osteological collections in Scandinavia.
(6) Sex-dependent development of the metapodial bones was studied in terms of longitudinal growth and in relation to carcass weight and a number of important carcass characteristics.