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carpal region

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A mesopodium that is part of a manus. Includes as parts the carpal skeleton and associated tissues[cjm]. The anatomical region surrounding the carpus including the distal parts of the bones of the forearm and the proximal parts of the metacarpus or five metacarpal bones and the series of joints between these bones, thus referred to as wrist joints. This region also includes the carpal tunnel, the anatomical snuff box, the flexor retinaculum, and the extensor retinaculum[WP,unvetted]. [ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrist ]

Synonyms: fore basipodium, manus mesopodium, fore mesopodium, regio carpalis, wrist region, carpal limb segment, carpal segment, wrist, hand mesopodium

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Hand_parts.jpg, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Human_wrist.png

has related synonym

articulatio radiocarpea, carpus

has alternative id

UBERON:0001462

has narrow synonym

carpus of fore-paw

id

UBERON:0004452

prefLabel

Wrist, carpal region