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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A passageway in the wrist through which nerves and the long tendons of the flexor muscles of the wrist and fingers pass.

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  • noun anatomy A fibro-osseous passageway on the palmar side of the wrist that connects the distal forearm to the middle compartment of the deep plane of the palm.

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  • noun a passageway in the wrist through which nerves and the flexor muscles of the hands pass

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