carpus (redirected from dropped carpus, broken-down carpus)

carpus

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 [′kär·pəs]

(anatomy)

The wrist in humans or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.

The eight bones of the human wrist.

(invertebrate zoology)

The fifth segment from the base of a generalized crustacean appendage.