carpale

noun

1. A carpal, especially one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

   “[…] this being the case the bone in question contains at any rate the centrale, and I see no reason why the carpale 2 should have quite disappeared.”

   “This indicates that the pisiform is really a secondary component which became the carpale during phylogenesis.”

   “The dorsal interossei are sometimes found to originate more proximal at the base of the metacarpals or even at the carpalia.”