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the name of wrist joint is Radio-carpal joint.

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Carpals then the ones in your hands are metacarpals

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The wrist joint doesn't have a proper name. It's made up of 8 different bone- Lunate, Triquetrum, Pisiform, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Hamate, Capitate and Scapoid. :)

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Carpus. The wrist bones are the carpals.

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Radio-carpal

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