WRIST BONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrist bone mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRIST 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 ("wrist 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 "wrist 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 ("wrist 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)