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carpal tunnel syndrome
The definition of carpal tunnel syndrome is a repetitive stress injury in the hands and wrist that causes numbness and tingling in the hand.
(noun)An example of carpal tunnel syndrome is a pinched nerve in the wrist caused by too much typing at a computer.
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See carpal tunnel syndrome in Webster's New World College Dictionary
a medical condition that is characterized by pain, numbness, etc. in the wrist, palm, fingers, and thumb, usually caused by repetitive hand movement, as in typing or knitting, which swells the tissue surrounding the nerve in a tunnel-like passage in the wrist
See carpal tunnel syndrome in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
A condition characterized by pain and numbing or tingling sensations in the hand and caused by compression of a nerve in the carpal tunnel at the wrist.
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