Tearing apart camel bone (10)

I believe the answer is:

metacarpal

'bone' is the definition.
(I know that metacarpal is a type of bone)

'tearing apart camel' is the wordplay.
'tearing' indicates an anagram.
'apart'+'camel'='apartcamel'
'apartcamel' with letters rearranged gives 'METACARPAL'.

(Other definitions for metacarpal that I've seen before include "Bone in hand" , "part of body" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.

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