Definition of carpal
: of or relating to the carpus
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Her husband, Percy Morris, filed claims for carpal tunnel, MRSA and a back injury while in DROP.
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Her husband, Percy Morris, filed claims for carpal tunnel, MRSA and a back injury while in DROP.
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Her husband, Percy Morris, filed claims for carpal tunnel, MRSA and a back injury while in DROP.
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The carpal tunnel from all the texting of his sources.
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The person who plays the nonstop, eardrum-rattling music surely suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Those include peripheral neuropathy, which is numbness or pain from nerve damage in the hands and feet, carpal tunnel syndrome, and kidney failure.
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What might contribute to hand problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome?
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The case began in 2007, when a Broward County woman, Susan Kalitan, underwent surgery at what is now Broward Health Medical Center to fix carpal tunnel syndrome in her wrist.
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Origin and Etymology of carpal
New Latin carpalis, from carpus
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The bones that made the difference seemed to be the bones of the hand and wrist (phalanges, metacarpals, and carpals), the lower arm (radius and ulna), ankles (tarsals), and parts of the leg (femur and fibula, but oddly not the tibia).
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And Kate and William's super-long titles that probably gave the poor registrar carpal tunnel.
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Chi ARC Automatic Rotating Curling Iron, $130 Curling iron carpal tunnel could be a thing of the past with Chi's automatic rotating barrel that does the swiveling for you.
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First Known Use of carpal
1855
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