ARTICULATIO RADIOCARPEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does articulatio radiocarpea mean? 

• ARTICULATIO RADIOCARPEA (noun)
  The noun ARTICULATIO RADIOCARPEA has 1 sense:

1. a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones

  Familiarity information: ARTICULATIO RADIOCARPEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTICULATIO RADIOCARPEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones

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Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

articulatio radiocarpea; carpus; radiocarpal joint; wrist; wrist joint

Hypernyms ("articulatio radiocarpea" is a kind of...):

articulatio plana; gliding joint (a freely moving joint in which the articulations allow only gliding motions)

Meronyms (parts of "articulatio radiocarpea"):

carpal; carpal bone; wrist bone (any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates)

carpal tunnel (a passageway in the wrist through which nerves and the flexor muscles of the hands pass)

Holonyms ("articulatio radiocarpea" is a part of...):

arm (a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb)