Wrist

Definition: Wrist

Wrist

Noun

1. A joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wrist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Wrist \Wrist\, noun. [from Old English expression wriste, wrist, Anglo-Saxon wrist; akin to OFries. wriust, Low German wrist, German rist wrist, instep, Icelandic rist instep, Danish Swedish vrist, and perhaps to English writhe.]. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Wrist

Retention

Paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf, neif.

Crosswords: Wrist

It's activated by nerve impulses from the wrist muscles (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

The red thing's connected to my wrist watch (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'm slashing my wrist. (Bachelor Party; writing credit: Bob Israel; Neal Israel)

Could be a piece of wrist bone (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami)

Especially not with a pajama wearin' daisy strapped to me wrist! (Samurai Jack; writing credit: Paul Waite)

Might light your wrist, but that about it (I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me); performing artist: Jay-Z)

Hundred Six karats, total, nah thats pure wrist (#1; performing artist: Nelly)

Shorty wanna see the ice, then I ice the wrist (Ride Wit Me (Featuring City Spud); performing artist: Nelly)

MY KNEES STARTED SHAKIN', MY WRIST STARTED ACHIN' (Oh My My; performing artist: Ringo Starr)

You are an engineer if your wrist watch has more buttons than a telephone. (references; author: unknown)

Choorian: Beauty Around the Wrist (1993)

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References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Wrist Sprains and Strains (reference)

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Books

• Examination of the Hand & the Wrist (reference)

• Papas' Instant Greek: How to Communicate in Greek as Quickly as You Can Twist Your Wrist! (reference)

• The Wrist (reference)

• The Wrist in Rheumatoid Arthritis (Rheumatology: The Interdisciplinary Concept, Vol 17) (reference)

• Vintage American and European Wrist Watch Price Guide (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Wrist Fracture (reference)

• Heal Your Wrist Pain, Naturally (reference)

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Music

• With a Flick of My Musical Wrist (reference)

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High Tech

• Belkin Anti-Static Wrist Band with Adjustable Grounding (reference)

• Purlpe Gel Crystal Mousepad/wr Transparent Mousepad Ans Wrist (reference)

• Fellowes Full Articulate Keyboard Manage Gliding Mouse Tray & Gel Wrist Rest (reference)

• Blue Crystal Gel Flex Rest Transparent Mini Wrist Rest (reference)

• LEATHERETTE GEL FLEX WRIST REST (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• MMF Industries Wrist Coil Key Chain, Black (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Note the bowed legs and enlarged right wrist. Nutritional Rickets is a condition in which children's bones are too soft, and do not develop properly due to a deficiency of vitamin D. Credit: CDC.

Erythema multiforme, skin of wrist and thumb. Credit: CDC.

This patient presented with papulosquamous syphilids on the wrist and palms during the secondary stage of syphilis. The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots and can appear on both the palms of the hands and on the bottoms of the feet. Credit: CDC.

Physical Therapy Department, Deshon General Hospital, Butler, Pennsylvania : Pulleys being used for the exercise of both upper extremities including shoulder, elbow and wrist. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Drawings Illustrative of the Cololian Method of Treating Stiff Joints. : Eight illustrations of devices designed to measure shoulder and wrist movement. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Artificial limbs : Amputee showing stump of left arm at wrist. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Gymnastics - Medical : Pronation of the wrist. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Then the cold fingers left his wrist, and crept slowly upward toward his throat. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He comes to the attack, no lost feints, a pliant wrist, sparkling play, a flash, step exact, and ripostes mathematical

Casy took the skinny old wrist in his fingers

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Many people do not know they have weak bones until they break a hip, wrist, or vertebrae (bones in the spine). (references)

Carpal tunnel syndrome is treated by immobilizing the wrist in a splint to minimize or prevent pressure on the nerves. (references)

If that fails, patients are sometimes given anti-inflammatory drugs or injections of cortisone in the wrist to reduce the swelling. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

No action was taken against the members of the security forces responsible for torturing, beating, raping, or otherwise abusing persons in the following cases from 2000: The November beating of a foreign ICRC worker during an NDA attack on government forces in Kassala; the September incidents in which police used tear gas, batons, and live ammunition to disperse demonstrators and in some instances, beat or otherwise injured numerous individuals; the June beating in Hilla Kuku of a Catholic seminarian on the neck and wrist with a stick after he refused to remove a wooden cross that he was wearing; the June attack on Juba University in Khartoum using sticks and tear gas; the May raids by security forces on Alnasr Technology College in which they arrested, beat, injured students, and fired bullets in the air to disperse a student protest on education issues; and the February detention and beating of two students for political activity by security forces. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "wrist": Bridle wrist ♦ compliant wrist ♦ espresso wrist ♦ wrist band ♦ wrist bone ♦ wrist clonus ♦ wrist drop ♦ Wrist Injuries ♦ wrist joint ♦ wrist pad ♦ wrist pin ♦ wrist plate ♦ wrist secondary axes ♦ wrist watch. Additional references.

Beginning with "wrist": wrist-brace, wrist-breaking, wrist-buttoning, wrist-calculator, wrist-cocking, wrist-cutting, wrist-exerciser, wrist-generated, wrist-joint, wrist-length, wrist-life, wrist-memo, wrist-mounted, wrist-rest, wrist-rests, wrist-rings, wrist-rupturing, wrist-slapping, wrist-slashers, wrist-slashing, wrist-snapping, wrist-spinner, wrist-spinners, wrist-strengthening, wrist-thick, wrist-tinkerer, wrist-watch, wrist-watches, wrist-worn.

Ending with "wrist": off-the-wrist.

Afrikaans

polshorlosie (watch, wrist-watch), armhorlosie (watch, wrist-watch). (various references)

Albanian

kyç i dorës (bangle), dore (hand, manual). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معصم السترة, ‏معصم, ‏رسغ (carpus). (various references)

Aymara

ampar moqo. (various references)

Bulgarian 

хватка (clutch, grasp, grip, hold, lock), цапфа (gudgeon, journal, pin, teat, tenon, tongue, wrist pin), китка (bunch, carpus, cluster, fascicle, fascicule, medley, nosegay, posy). (various references)

Catalan

canell. (various references)

Chamorro

muñekan kánnai. (various references)

Chinese 

腕子, 腕 . (various references)

Cornish

conna-brégh. (various references)

Czech

zápìstí (carpus), zápěstí. (various references)

Danish

håndled. (various references)

Dutch

pols (pulse), handwortel. (various references)

Esperanto

pojno, manradiko. (various references)

Faeroese

skøvningur, handliður. (various references)

Farsi 

مچ دست , مچ , قسمت لباس یادستکش که مچ دست رابگیرد. (various references)

Finnish

ranne. (various references)

French

poignet (wristband). (various references)

Frisian

pols. (various references)

German

Handgelenk, Handwurzel (carpus). (various references)

Greek 

καρπόσ χεριού, καρπόσ τησ χειρόσ (carpus), καρπός χεριού, καρπός (fruit). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפרק כף היד, שורש כף יד. (various references)

Hungarian

csukló (joint, juncture, knuckle, knuckle-joint, link, pivot). (various references)

Indonesian

pergelangan tangan. (various references)

Irish

uaireadóir lÚimhe (watch, wrist-watch). (various references)

Italian

polso (cuff, energy, pulse). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

腕首 , リサジューの図形 (fracture, Lissajous's figure, list, list broker, listing, lithograph, lizard, lizardman, lysine, reconstruction, reject, reserve, restart, restore, restructure, restructuring, result, resurrection, RISC, risk, risk control, risk factor, risk finance, squirrel, wristband), 手首 , 手頸 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リスト (list), うでくび, てくび. (various references)

Korean 

손목. (various references)

Malay

arloji-tangan (watch, wrist-watch). (various references)

Manx

mwannal y laue, mwannal laue, keylid ny laue. (various references)

Maya

kaal kab. (various references)

Mohawk

onentshawìtha. (various references)

Norwegian

armbåndsur (watch, wrist-watch). (various references)

Pig Latin

istwray.(various references)

Portuguese

pulso (fist, pulse). (various references)

Romanian

manşetã (cuff, socket), carp (carpus), încheieturã a mâini. (various references)

Russian 

наручный, запястье ручной, запястье (bangle, carpus). (various references)

Scottish

githir , gìr (corn-reapers' wrist pain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ručni zglob, koji pripada ručnom zglobu. (various references)

Shona

chiningoningo. (various references)

Spanish

muñeca (doll, dollish, dummy, puppet). (various references)

Swazi

si-hlákala. (various references)

Swedish

handled (carpus), handlove. (various references)

Turkish

piston pimi (wrist pin), krank pimi (wrist pin), bilek (carpal, carpus), bílek. (various references)

Turkmen 

goюar. (various references)

Ukrainian

цапфа (neck, wrist pin), манжета (cuff, shirtband, wristband), зап'ясток (carpus), браслет (armlet, bangle, bracelet, circlet, wristband). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đồng hồ đeo tay (watch, wrist-watch). (various references)

Welsh

arddwrn. (various references)

Zulu

iwashi (watch, wrist-watch). (various references)

carpus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "wrist": wristband, wristbands, wristier, wristiest, wristlet, wristlets, wristlock, wristlocks, wrists, wristwatch, wristwatches, wristy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wrist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arist, drist, erist, krist, warist, weist, Wersig, wirest, wirist, wirst, wisty, woist, worrits, wri, wriat, wric, wrilt, wrisp, writl, writt, wrocht. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: writs.

-1 letter: stir, wist, wits, writ.

-2 letters: its, sir, sit, sri, tis, wis, wit.

-3 letters: is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: twiers, twirls, twirps, wriest, wrists, wristy, writes.

+2 letters: miswrit, retwist, swifter, swither, trishaw, twiners, twister, waister, waiters, wariest, wastrie, winters, wiriest, withers, worrits, wraiths, wrights, writers, writhes.

+3 letters: awaiters, bowsprit, cowrites, fewtrils, figworts, misthrew, misthrow, miswrite, miswrote, retwists, rewrites, ribworts, ringtaws, rowdiest, skywrite, stairway, strawier, strawing, strewing, strowing, sweatier, swifters, switcher, swithers, tawdries, tinwares, tinworks, trishaws, twirlers, twisters, twistier, twitters, waisters, waitress, wartiest, wartimes, wasterie, wastries, waterish, weariest, weirdest, whistler, whitters, wiretaps, wistaria, wisteria, wordiest, wormiest, worsting, worthies, wresting, wristier, wristlet, writeups, writhers, writings.