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n. The group of eight bones forming the joint between the forearm and the hand. Also called wrist.

n. A joint in quadrupeds corresponding to the wrist.

n. The group of bones that make up the wrist.

n. The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

n. The wrist, wrist-joint, or carpal articulation; the proximal segment of the manus or hand, corresponding to the tarsus of the foot; the joint by which the hand or distal division of the fore limb is connected with the forearm. Thus, in a horse, the so-called “knee” is the carpus.

n. Especially the carpal bones or carpalia, collectively considered; a number of small irregularly nodular bones intervening between the bones of the antebrachium and those of the metacarpus, and constituting the proximal division of the skeleton of the manus or hand.

n. In Crustacea, the fifth joint of the normally 7-jointed leg, between the meros and the propodos.

n. In entomology, a name sometimes applied to the pterostigma or colored spot on the anterior edge of the wings in many insects.

n. In entomology: The club of the stigmal vein in the fore wing of an insect of the family Chalcididæ.

n. In ichth, same as actinost.

n. a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones

"The skeleton of the hand exhibits, in the region which we term the wrist, and which is technically called the 'carpus' -- two rows of closely fitted polygonal bones, four in each row, which are tolerably equal in size."

gliding joint    articulatio plana   

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metatarsus    tarsus    fatuousness    noninfectious    humerus