CARPAL BONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carpal bone mean? 

• CARPAL BONE (noun)
  The noun CARPAL BONE has 1 sense:

1. any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates

  Familiarity information: CARPAL BONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPAL BONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

carpal; carpal bone; wrist bone

Hypernyms ("carpal bone" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carpal bone"):

navicular; os scaphoideum; scaphoid bone (the largest wrist bone on the thumb side)

lunate bone; os lunatum; semilunar bone (one of the eight small wrist bones)

cuneiform bone; os triquetrum; pyramidal bone; triquetral; triquetral bone (a wrist bone that articulates with the pisiform and hamate and lunate bones)

os pisiforme; pisiform; pisiform bone (a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral)

os trapezium; trapezium; trapezium bone (the wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals)

os trapezoideum; trapezoid; trapezoid bone (the wrist bone between the trapezium and the capitate bones)

capitate; capitate bone; os capitatum (the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus)

hamate; hamate bone; os hamatum; unciform bone (the wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers)

Holonyms ("carpal bone" is a part of...):

articulatio radiocarpea; carpus; radiocarpal joint; wrist; wrist joint (a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones)

 Context examples 

The largest of eight carpal bones, located in the center of the hand.

(Capitate Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

A joint formed between carpal bones.

(Carpal Joint, NCI Thesaurus)

The largest aspect articulates with the humerus at the elbow joint and the smallest portion of the ulna articulates with the carpal bones in the wrist.

(Murine Ulna, NCI Thesaurus)

The medial bone of the proximal row of carpal bones.

(Pisiform Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

The bone in the proximal row of carpal bones that lies between the scaphoid and triquetral bones.

(Lunate Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

The medial bone in the distal row of carpal bones.

(Hamate Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

A carpal bone which is located between the scaphoid and triquelateral bones.

(Lunate Bone, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)