a. Anat. [ad. mod.L. carpālis, f. carpus wrist.] Of or pertaining to the carpus or wrist.
1743. Bevan, in Phil. Trans., XLII. 489. Several Anchylosses’s formed in the small Joints, viz. carpal and metacarpal Bones.
1840. G. Ellis, Anat., 402. The posterior carpal artery is very small.
1800. W. Knipe, in Med. Jrnl., IV. 416. The articulation between the carpal and metacarpal bones.
1856. Yarrell, Hist. Birds, I. 390. From the carpal joint to the end of the wing.
b. sb. pl. = Carpal bones.
1855. Owen, Skel. & Teeth, 175. The row of short bones joined with these are the ‘carpals.’
