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Definition of Carpale
1. n. One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.
Definition of Carpale
1. a bone of the wrist [n -LIA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpale
Literary usage of Carpale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1896)
"Disto-carpals, 1, carpale I, with its ossification; '2, carpale II, ... 2; 4,
carpale IV, with its ossification (carpale V suppressed) ; c, ..."
2. An Introduction to the Osteology of the Mammalia by William Henry Flower (1885)
"carpale 5 ) The metacarpal bones, with the digits which they support, never exceed
five in number, and are distinguished by numerals, counted from the ..."
3. Arboreal Man by Frederic Wood Jones (1916)
"(os magnum) are separate, and not greatly changed; carpale IV. and carpale V. are
... Fusion of carpale IV. and V. takes place even in the very generalized ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"It is contiguous distally to the approximate surface of metacarpals II and III
and carpale IV; proximally to the radiale. carpale IV retains the same ..."
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