carpal tunnel syndrome

English

Noun

carpal tunnel syndrome

1. (neurology) form of repetitive strain injury caused by compression of the median nerve travelling through the carpal tunnel.

Synonyms

• CTS

Translations

repetitive stress injury

• Catalan: síndrome del túnel carpià, síndrome del canal carpià
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 腕管綜合症 / 腕管综合症 (wun² gun² zung³ hap⁶ zing³), 滑鼠手 (waat⁶ syu² sau²) (informal)

  Mandarin: 腕管綜合徵 / 腕管综合征 (wànguǎn zōnghézhēng, wànguǎn zònghézhēng) (mainland China), 腕隧道症候羣 (zh) (wàn suìdào zhènghòuqún), 腕隧道症候群 (zh) (wàn suìdào zhènghòuqún) (Taiwan), 腕道症候羣, 腕道症候群 (wàndào zhènghòuqún) (Taiwan), 滑鼠手 (huáshúshǒu) (Taiwan, informal), 鼠標手 / 鼠标手 (shǔbiāoshǒu) (mainland China, informal)

• Czech: syndrom karpálního tunelu
• Dutch: Carpaletunnelsyndroom
• Esperanto: karpetunela sindromo
• Finnish: rannekanavaoireyhtymä (fi)
• French: syndrome du canal carpien m
• German: Karpaltunnelsyndrom n
• Italian: sindrome del tunnel carpale f
• Portuguese: síndrome do túnel carpal
• Romanian: sindrom de tunel carpian n
• Russian: синдро́м запя́стного кана́ла m (sindróm zapjástnovo kanála)
• Spanish: síndrome del túnel carpiano m
• Swedish: Karpaltunnelsyndrom
• Turkish: Karpal Tünel Sendromu