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eight tiny wrist bones doing the heavy lifting for every gesture you'll ever make
means Relating to the carpus — the cluster of small bones forming the wrist that connects hand to forearm.
from From Latin carpus, borrowed from Greek karpos meaning 'wrist.' Worth noting: Greek had two unrelated karpos words — one for 'wrist,' one for 'fruit' (as in 'carpel' in botany) — so the wrist-bone sense and the seed-pod sense are linguistic strangers who happen to share a spelling.
- count
- eight bones packed into your wrist
- name origin
- from Greek karpos, meaning wrist
- famous tunnel
- a passageway, not a disease, originally
- mnemonics
- students invent rhymes to memorize all eight
- scaphoid risk
- most commonly broken carpal bone
for instance
carpal tunnel syndrome — affects 3-6% of the population, caused by pressure on the median nerve in the wrist
carpal bones — 8 bones in human wrist arranged in two rows, includes scaphoid and lunate