carpal tunnel

Noun

Meaning

a passageway in the wrist through which nerves and the flexor muscles of the hands pass

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Examples

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet. Robert Greenwald

Differential diagnosis Carpal tunnel syndrome is sometimes applied as a label to anyone with pain, numbness, swelling, and/or burning in the radial side of the hands and/or wrists. Source: Internet

Carpal tunnel is a feature of a form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome type 1 called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. Source: Internet

Carpal tunnel syndrome with normal electrodiagnostic tests is very, very mild at worst. Source: Internet

Carpal tunnel syndrome was first identified by the British surgeon James Paget in 1854. Source: Internet

Michael Einziger had been suffering from Carpal tunnel syndrome and although he had an operation that has corrected the problem, he needed to recuperate for a few months, hence recent tour plans were postponed. Source: Internet

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