Carpal

Definitions: Carpal

Carpal

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the wrist; "Carpal tunnel syndrome".

Noun

1. Any of the eight small bones of the wrist.

Note: Carpal \Car"pal\, adjective. [From Carpus.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Carpal

Synonyms: carpal bone (n), wrist bone (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Carpal

English words defined with "carpal": articulatio radiocarpea ♦ Carpal angle, carpal bone, carpal tunnel syndrome, carpus, Cuniform ♦ Intercarpal ♦ radiocarpal joint ♦ scaphoid bone ♦ wrist, wrist joint. (references)

Specialty definitions using "carpal": Carpal Bones, carpal canal syndrome, Cubital Tunnel Syndrome ♦ Median Neuropathy ♦ Nature of injury or illness ♦ Part of body affected. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Carpal

Domain	Title
Books	Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Disorders of the Median Nerve (reference) Eating Do's & Don'ts for Nutritional Management of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (reference) It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! RSI Theory & Therapy for Computer Professionals (reference) Light at the End of the Carpal Tunnel (reference) Relief from Carpal Tunnel Pain and Other Nerve Entrapment Syndromes (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Dr. Wang's Self-Care Series Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (reference) Treat Your Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Carpal

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Testing for carpal tunnel syndrome. (references)
		The most common form of compression neuropathy is carpal tunnel syndrome. (references)
		Approximately 1 percent of individuals with carpal tunnel syndrome develop permanent injury. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Carpal

"Carpal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Carpal" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	92.31%	12	101,599
Noun (proper)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Carpal

Expressions using "carpal": Carpal angle ♦ carpal bone ♦ carpal bones ♦ carpal canal syndrome ♦ carpal tunnel syndrome. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carpal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
carpal tunnel	2,390	carpal tunel syndrome	12
carpal tunnel syndrome	1,603	carpal endoscopic release surgery tunnel	10
carpal tunnel surgery	153	carpal bones	10
carpal	106	carpal tunnel syndrone	10
carpal tunnel symptom	90	carpal tunnel sydrome	10
carpal tunnel syndrome symptom	87	carpal tunnel therapy	10
carpal tunnel syndrome treatment	86	carpal tunnel release surgery	9
carpal tunnel exercise	67	carpal tunnel surgery recovery	9
carpal tunnel treatment	38	pregnancy carpal tunnel syndrome	9
carpal tunnel release	31	boss carpal	9
carpal tunel	26	prevention carpal tunnel syndrome	8
pregnancy carpal tunnel	25	cause of carpal tunnel	8
carpal tunnel wrist support	24	carpal tunnel syndrome information	8
carpal tunnel syndrome exercise	22	carpal test tunnel	8
carpal tunnel syndrome surgery	19	carpal tunnal	7
carpal syndrome	15	carpal tunnell syndrome	7
carpal tunnell	13	carpal tunnel massage	7
carpal tunnel.com	12	carpal tunal	7
carpal tunnel relief	12	carpal tunnel laser surgery	7
carpal tunnel prevention	12	carpal tunnel syndrome cause	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Carpal

Language		Translations for "carpal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i kyçit të dorës. (various references)

Arabic		‏عظم الرسغ (carpal bone), ‏عظم الرس (carpal bone). (various references)

Bulgarian		кост на китката, отнасящ се до китката на ръката. (various references)

Czech		karpální. (various references)

Danish		carpal, karpal. (various references)

Dutch		carpaal. (various references)

French		carpien. (various references)

German		karpal. (various references)

Greek		καρπικόσ, καρπικός, καρπιαίος. (various references)

Hungarian		csukócsontra vonatkozó. (various references)

Italian		carpale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		腕骨 (carpal bone, carpus, wristbone), 手� �管症候群 (carpal tunnel syndrome). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅ�"�"か�"しょう�"うぐ�" (carpal tunnel syndrome), わ�"�"つ (carpal bone, carpus, wristbone). (various references)

Manx		carpallagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		arpalcay

Portuguese		carpiano, cárpico, cárpeo. (various references)

Romanian		carpian. (various references)

Russian		кистевой, запястный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		karpalni. (various references)

Spanish		carpal, relativo al carpo, de mano (hand). (various references)

Swedish		handled-. (various references)

Turkish		el bileği kemiği, bilek ile ilgili, bilek (carpus, wrist). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Carpal

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carpal": carpale, carpalia, carpals. (additional references)
	Words ending with "carpal": metacarpal. (additional references)
	Words containing "carpal": metacarpals. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carpal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acral, arpa, arpal, Arpel, Carapa, Carapelli, cardal, carial, carmal, carpa, carpas, carpei, carples, carpoal, Carpow, carpral, cartal, caural, cepal, ceral, Charpak, chartpak, Charwal, Cieplak, ciral, Corpak, craal, crapola, crapula, cuspal, Jarpa, karpa, karpal, karpel, Karwal, qaryal, Sharmpal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Carpal"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "carpal" (pronounced kÄ"rpul)
6	k Ä" r p u l	metacarpal.
3	-p u l	ample, Appel, apple, archetypal, businesspeople, chapel, congresspeople, couple, craftspeople, cripple, crumple, decouple, dimple, disciple, episcopal, example, fipple, gospel, grapple, hopple, laypeople, maple, multiple, municipal, newspeople, nipple, oedipal, opal, papal, people, pimple, pineapple, Popple, principal, principle, pupil, purple, quadruple, quintuple, ripple, rumple, salespeople, sample, scalpel, scruple, Semple, simple, spokespeople, staple, steeple, subprincipal, supple, temple, tipple, topple, townspeople, trample, triple, uncouple.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Carpal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-p-r"
	-1 letter: craal.
	-2 letters: alar, carl, carp, clap, crap, paca, para.
	-3 letters: aal, ala, alp, arc, cap, car, lac, lap, lar, pac, pal, par, rap.
	-4 letters: aa, al, ar, la, pa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-p-r"
	+1 letter: caltrap, caporal, carpale, carpals, placard.
	+2 letters: calcspar, caltraps, calyptra, capabler, caporals, capsular, carpalia, claptrap, coplanar, parfocal, parlance, piacular, placards, placater, precaval, scapular.
	+3 letters: acropetal, afterclap, applecart, calcspars, calyptras, capillary, capitular, chaparral, clapboard, claptraps, graphical, parabolic, paralytic, parlances, parochial, piratical, placarded, placaters, placatory, portulaca, practical, scapulars.
	+4 letters: afterclaps, allopatric, alphameric, altarpiece, apocryphal, applecarts, applicator, archetypal, aspherical, camelopard, campestral, capitulary, cardplayer, carpellary, carpellate, chaparrals, clapboards, comparable, comparably, crawlspace, epicardial, landscaper, metacarpal, paralytics, paraplegic, parricidal, particular, patricidal, placarding, portulacas, practicals, procambial, recappable, sarcoplasm, spiracular.
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