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WRIST

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 847 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WRIST  , in

anatomy, the carpus or carpal articulation in man, the joint by which the hand is articulated with the fore-arm (see ANATOMY: Superficial and
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Artistic; and
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SKELETON: Appendicular) . The word means by origin " that which turns," and is formed from the O . Eng. writan, to twist .

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