radiocarpal joint

Questions about radiocarpal joint

What does radiocarpal joint mean?

radiocarpal joint means "a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones".

What is another word for radiocarpal joint?

Close synonyms include wrist, carpus, wrist joint, articulatio radiocarpea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is radiocarpal joint a common word?

radiocarpal joint 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.