arteria metacarpea vs artery

arteria metacarpea and artery both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
arteria metacarpea	Yes	No	No	No
artery	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, artery is a hypernym of arteria metacarpea; that is, artery is a word with a broader meaning than arteria metacarpea:

Other hypernyms of arteria metacarpea include arteria, arterial blood vessel.

arteria metacarpea (noun)	artery (noun)
dorsal and palmar arteries of the hand	a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic
	a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body