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Buddy maybe sharing a lift in a sort of tunnel?
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carpal
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Word definitions for carpal in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to the carpus. n. (context anatomy English) Any of the eight bones of the wrist (carpus).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to the wrist; "Carpal tunnel syndrome"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carpal \Car"pal\, a. [From Carpus .] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist. -- n. One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale. Carpal angle (Zo["o]l.), the angle at the last joint of the folded wing of a bird. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"of the wrist," 1743, from Modern Latin carpalis , from carpus "wrist" (see carpus ). Carpal tunnel syndrome attested by 1970, from carpal tunnel , the tunnel-like passage that carries nerves through the wrist.
Usage examples of carpal.
The left metacarpal bones were dislocated from the carpal bones, the left tibia was fractured, and there were contusions about the back and hips.
I know that there is already a thickening of the metacarpals and phalanges, not to mention the carpals themselves.
Blood spurted and he rolled away from me and I stamped on his right hand with my heel and shattered all the carpals and metacarpals and phalanges that he had in there.
This one was carrying many small bones in her gastric pouches, all of them recognizably human: a few carpal bones, metacarpi, and the terminal digits of a human hand.
A ring of small dry slits peeled open above his carpals, black nozzles poking out.
Along with the right clavicle, a piece of the ilium, the left radius, carpals and intercarpals.
The metacarpals and the carpals should both be vulnerable to a direct hit.
Next I began looking for carpals, the small bones of the wrist that look very much like stones you might find in a creek bed or dig up in your garden.
On the basis of height and weight he’d assumed she was around twenty-four months, he said, but the development of cartilage in the carpals and metacarpals indicated that she was closer to three.
Enrique Estefan's grip was firm, although his hand was hot, dry, leathery, padded with too little flesh, almost withered, all knuckles and meta carpals and phalanges.
My carpal bones have softened somewhat in readiness for change -they may firm again by the time I've determined how difficult it will be to achieve my transformation.
Frock carefully pulled off the sheet and began the painstaking process of measuring the carpal bones of the deformed skeleton with a pair of electronic calipers.
Hitting at him from beyond, from where he was standing at the head of the bed, with the long heavy barrel of his pistol, Grave Digger struck with such force he knocked the back of his hand into his mouth so hard that when he pulled it away screaming, three of the front teeth that Coffin Ed had loosened previously, were embedded in the carpal bones of his hand.
An arm so gaunt and elongated, with carpal bones so long it gave the appearance of having two elbows, more unfolded than reached out to touch a small stud beneath the image of the starfish.
He writes it very slowly because his hands are practically immobilized now by carpal tunnel syndrome, and any motion that even faintly resembles typing causes him a lot of pain.