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carpus

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car=pus

CIDE DICTIONARY

carpusn. [NL., fr. Gr. karpo`s wrist.].
     The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

carpus, n. (pl. carpi) the small bones between the forelimb and metacarpus in terrestrial vertebrates, forming the wrist in humans.

Etymology
mod.L f. Gk karpos wrist

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