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carpal bones

carpal bones is the plural of carpal bone.

Meaning of carpal bone

Noun

carpal bone (plural carpal bones)

  1. Any of the eight bones of the carpus or wrist: those being the scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, hamate, capitate, trapezoid, and trapezium bones.

Questions about carpal bones

What is carpal bones the plural of?
Carpal bones is the plural of carpal bone.

Words near carpal bones in the dictionary

  1. carpaines
  2. carpal
  3. carpal angle
  4. carpal angles
  5. carpal bone
  6. carpal bones
  7. carpal canal
  8. carpal canals
  9. carpal tunnel
  10. carpal tunnel syndrome
  11. carpal tunnels

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