Sentence examples for carpus from inspiring English sources

The arrangement of the small bones of the carpus ("wrist") and tarsus (ankle) is another characteristic feature of perissodactyl limbs.

Emphasis on the fore-and-aft articulations between the limb bones is especially pronounced in many bovids, the alternating bones in the wrist (carpus) and ankle (tarsus) taking the strain of impact on uneven ground.

Carpal bone, any of several small angular bones that in humans make up the wrist (carpus), and in horses, cows, and other quadrupeds the "knee" of the foreleg.

The skeleton of the wrist, or carpus, consists of eight small carpal bones, which are arranged in two rows of four each.

The bones of a generalized carpus (or tarsus) end in three transverse rows: a proximal row of three bones, the radiale (or tibiale), intermedium, and ulnare (or fibulare); a distal row of five carpalia (or tarsalia), numbered one to five from the radial (or tibial) margin; and an intermediate row of one or two centralia.

The distal segment of the limb comprises the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges in the forelimb and the tarsus, metatarsus, and phalanges in the hind limb.

The carpus and the tarsus of the higher vertebrates have probably been derived from a primitive structure by the fusion or suppression of certain of its elements.

In many urodele amphibians (e.g., salamanders), the carpus is generalized.

An os centrale is present in the carpus of many monkeys.