carpus

American  

[kahr-puhs] / ˈkɑr pəs /

noun

Anatomy.

plural

carpi

1. the part of the upper extremity between the hand and the forearm; wrist.

2. the wrist bones collectively; the group of bones between the bones of the hand and the radius.

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carpus British  

/ ˈkɑːpəs /

noun

1. the technical name for wrist

2. the eight small bones of the human wrist that form the joint between the arm and the hand

3. the corresponding joint in other tetrapod vertebrates

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carpus Scientific  

/ kär′pəs /

plural

carpi

1. The group of eight bones lying between the forearm and the metacarpals and forming the wrist in humans.

2. The group of bones making up the joint corresponding to the wrist in some vertebrates, such as dinosaurs.

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Etymology

Origin of carpus

1670–80; < New Latin < Greek karpós wrist

Example Sentences

Carpus and Papilus, two worthy christians, and Agathonica, a pious woman, suffered martyrdom at Pergamopolis, in Asia.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

Two Servants are to hold the Hand, after the same manner as in the setting of the Carpus or Wrist-Bone, whilst the Surgeon reduceth the broken Bone by fixing it in its Natural Situation.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee; and the books, but especially the parchments.

From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

The cloak that I left at Troada with Carpus when thou comest bring with thee, and the books, but specially the parchment.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

Carpus: the pterostigma of Odonata: the extremity of the radius and cubitus of the primaries: that point in the wings at which they are tratsversely folded.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.