carpal tunnel

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

   Broaderpassage

   Part ofwrist

Questions about carpal tunnel

What does carpal tunnel mean?

carpal tunnel means "a passageway in the wrist through which nerves and the flexor muscles of the hands pass".

Is carpal tunnel a common word?

carpal tunnel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.