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Carpal   /kˈɑrpəl/   Listen
Carpal

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the wrist.



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"Carpal" Quotes from Famous Books



... whales, in the porpoises, in the seals, and in others, we have shortening of the bones, but no reduction in the number either of the fingers or of their joints, which are, on the contrary, multiplied in Cetacea and the ichthyosaurus. And even in the turtles we have eight carpal bones and five digits, while no finger has less than two phalanges. It{107} is difficult, then, to believe that the Avian limb was developed in any other way than by a comparatively sudden modification of a marked ...
— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart

... voluptas! Tene mulceri fidibus canoris? Tene cantorum modulis stupere? Tene per pictas, oculo elegante, Currere formas? Inter aequales, sine felle liber, Codices veri studiosus inter Rectius vives. Sua quisque carpal Gaudia gratus. Lusibus gaudet puer otiosis, Luxus oblectat juvenem theatri, At seni fluxo sapienter uti ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell



Words linked to "Carpal" :   capitate, bone, trapezium, carpus, lunate bone, triquetral bone, pisiform bone, trapezium bone, trapezoid bone, os lunatum, semilunar bone, hamate, unciform bone, pisiform, os pisiforme, triquetral, trapezoid, os hamatum, wrist joint, capitate bone, navicular, os scaphoideum, os triquetrum, wrist, os, os capitatum, wrist bone, hamate bone, carpal tunnel, articulatio radiocarpea, os trapezium, pyramidal bone, cuneiform bone, scaphoid bone, os trapezoideum



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