adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to the carpus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
carpal
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈkɑː(ɹ)pəl/
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US: kärʹ pəl
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US: /ˈkɑɹ.pəl/
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)pəl
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homophone: carpel
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CMU ARPABET: K AA1 R P AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Of or pertaining to the obvious bend in a bird's wing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Any of the eight bones of the wrist (carpus).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
of or relating to the wrist
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: carpal bone, wrist bone
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bone, os
Narrower terms: scaphoid bone, os scaphoideum, navicular, lunate bone, semilunar bone, os lunatum, triquetral, triquetral bone, os triquetrum, cuneiform bone, pyramidal bone, pisiform, pisiform bone, os pisiforme, trapezium, trapezium bone, os trapezium, trapezoid, trapezoid bone, os trapezoideum, capitate, capitate bone, os capitatum, hamate, hamate bone, unciform bone, os hamatum
History
Etymology
From the Latin carpālis.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: китков (kitkov) — of or pertaining to the carpus
- Catalan: carpià — of or pertaining to the carpus
- Ido: karpala — of or pertaining to the carpus
- Central Kurdish: مەچەکی (meçekî) — of or pertaining to the carpus
- Latin: carpālis — of or pertaining to the carpus
- Polish: nadgarstkowy — of or pertaining to the carpus
- Portuguese: carpal — of or pertaining to the carpus
- Russian: запястный (zapjastnyj) — of or pertaining to the carpus
- Spanish: carpiano — of or pertaining to the carpus
- Bulgarian: киткова кост (kitkova kost) — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- Catalan: carpià — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- Finnish: ranneluu — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- French: carpien — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- German: Handwurzelknochen — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- Hungarian: kéztőcsont — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- Ido: karpo — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- Northern Kurdish: hestiyê meçeke — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- Latin: os carpī — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- Latin: manus — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- Malay: tulang pergelangan tangan — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- Malay: tulang karpus — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- Polish: kość nadgarstka — any of the eight bones of the wrist
- Russian: запястная кость (zapjastnaja kostʹ) — any of the eight bones of the wrist