carpal

English

Etymology

From the Latin carpālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pəl/
• (US) enPR: kärʹ pəl, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹ.pəl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəl
• Homophone: carpel

Noun

carpal (plural carpals)

1. (anatomy) Any of the eight bones of the wrist (carpus).

Synonyms

• carpal angle
• carpal bone
• carpal canal
• carpal tunnel syndrome

Translations

any of the eight bones of the wrist

• Finnish: ranneluu (fi)
• French: carpien (fr)
• German: Handwurzelknochen (de) m
• Hungarian: kéztőcsont (hu)
• Ido: karpo (io)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hestiyê meçeke

• Malay: tulang pergelangan tangan, tulang karpus
• Russian: запястная кость f (zapjastnaja kostʹ)

Adjective

carpal (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the carpus.
2. Of or pertaining to the obvious bend in a bird's wing.
   • 2020, Marianne Taylor, How Birds Work:

     The human wrist contains eight carpal bones and the hand has five metacarpals , but in birds just a couple of tiny carpal bones remain besides the carpometacarpus; these are the radiale and the ulnare, involved in the folding of the wrist joint.

Derived terms

• carpal tunnel
• cubitocarpal
• dorsocarpal
• extracarpal
• intercarpal
• intracarpal
• mediocarpal
• mesocarpal
• midcarpal
• radiocarpal
• supercarpal
• transcarpal
• ulnocarpal

Translations

of or pertaining to the carpus

• Catalan: carpià (ca)
• Ido: karpala
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مەچەکی (meçekî)

• Russian: запястный (ru) (zapjastnyj)
• Spanish: carpiano