[f. as prec. + JOINT sb.] The joint of the wrist; the radiocarpal articulation or joint: a. In man.
1634–5. Brereton, Trav. (Chetham Soc.), 47. The obstruction, which perhaps occasioned … that swelling in the wrist-joints.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 209. Wrist joint. This articulation … is formed by the junction of the hand and fore-arm.
1852. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. 1507. The wrist-joint enjoys every [such] variety of motion.
1873. T. H. Green, Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2), 54. The extensors of the wrist-joint.
b. In birds.
a. 1843. Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VII. 327/1. The Radio-carpal bone … forms … a cap to the front of the Wrist-joint.
1872. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 31. Extension of the hand upon the wrist-joint increases and completes the unfolding of the wing.
