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‖ carpus Anat.|kɑːpəs|
[mod.L. carpus, a. Gr. καρπός wrist.]
The part of the skeleton which unites the hand to the fore-arm, consisting in the higher vertebrates of eight small bones, in birds of two. In man it forms the wrist; in the horse, the knee.
1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 295 From the Carpus to the end of the middle finger. 1726Monro Anat. (1741) 259 The Hand is..divided into the Carpus, Metacarpus and Fingers. 1833Sir C. Bell Hand (1834) 91 The carpus, forming [in the horse] what by a sort of license is called the knee. 1840G. Ellis Anat. 417 Other small arteries are given off to the carpus and hand. |