Definitions for carpus

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carpus car·pus

Spelling: [kahr-puh s]

IPA: /ˈkɑr pəs/

Carpus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in carpus (acprsu).

Definitions for carpus

noun

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.

Origin of carpus

1670-80; New Latin Greek karpós wrist

Examples for carpus

The carpus consists of six small bones arranged in two rows.

It is there that we find the little group of bones which forms the carpus.

All have the central (os centrale) bone in the carpus (or wrist).

In Echidna the carpus is broad, the scaphoid and lunar are united and there is no centrale.

This, like the carpus, is much reduced and modified from the primitive condition.

Many reptiles have a carpus only slightly different from this.

The wrist (carpus) has nine bones, as in the lower Anthropoidea.

The carpus has no centrale and the lunar is generally small or absent.

The carpus often has two centralia and the intermedium is absent.

Between the two rows there is a centrale as in the carpus, or there may be two.