Carpus, i, m. [carpo],
the name of a carver : qui obsonium carpit Carpus vocatur. Itaque quotiescunque dicit Carpe, eodem verbo et vocat et imperat, Petr. 36 fin. ; 40.
·noun The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or foref...
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