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

The radius and ulna also articulate with the carpal bones and with each other, which in vertebrates enables a variable degree of rotation of the carpus with respect to the long axis of the limb.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, many a campus carpus has felt the sting dealt out by 69-year-old Otelia Connor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The region occupied by the carpus, in the unguligrades, is known as the knee; it would have been more appropriately named had it been called the wrist.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

The carpus may be displaced backward or forward, and the articular edge of the radius towards which it passes may be chipped off.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Some of the Oligocene forms, alike as regards dentition, the union of the scaphoid and lunar of the carpus, and the complexity of the brain, approximated to modern Carnivora.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various