wrist joint

Questions about wrist joint

What does wrist joint mean?

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

What is another word for wrist joint?

Close synonyms include wrist, carpus, radiocarpal 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 wrist joint a common word?

wrist 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.