WRIST JOINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrist joint mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRIST JOINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("wrist joint" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "wrist joint"):

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 ("wrist joint" 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)

 Context examples 

Any of the small bones of the wrist joint, located between the radius and the ulna and the metacarpus.

(Carpal Bone, NCI Thesaurus)