Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated between or among carpal bones: as, intercarpal ligaments.

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  • adjective (Anat.) Between the carpal bone.

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  • adjective anatomy Between the carpal bones.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ carpal

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Examples

  • -- The carpal bones as they articulate with one another and with the radius and metacarpal bones, as classed by anatomists, form three distinct articular parts of the joint as a whole and are known as radiocarpal, intercarpal and carpometacarpal.

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

  • They ascend in front of the wrist, supply the intercarpal articulations, and end in the volar carpal network.

    VI. The Arteries. 4b. 3. The Radial Artery 1918

  • The Adductor pollicis (obliquus) (Adductor obliquus pollicis) arises by several slips from the capitate bone, the bases of the second and third metacarpals, the intercarpal ligaments, and the sheath of the tendon of the Flexor carpi radialis.

    IV. Myology. 1F. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Hand 1918

  • —The dorsal radiocarpal ligament less thick and strong than the volar, is attached, above, to the posterior border of the lower end of the radius; its fibers are directed obliquely downward and medialward, and are fixed, below, to the dorsal surfaces of the navicular, lunate, and triangular, being continuous with those of the dorsal intercarpal ligaments.

    III. Syndesmology. 1F. Radiocarpal Articulation or Wrist-joint 1918

  • —The synovial membrane is a continuation of that of the intercarpal joints.

    III. Syndesmology. 6h. Carpometacarpal Articulations 1918

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