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💪 Relating to radius 💪 A forearm muscle 🌼 Radial in form
radialis

radialis

9.9
A muscle near the thumb side of the forearm that helps move the wrist
  • noun
  • /ˈreɪdiəlɪs/
  • Specialized
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  • The flexor carpi radialis and flexor digitorum superficialis muscles were monitored.
  • flexor carpi radialis
  • carpi radialis

Examples

  • The flexor carpi radialis is important for wrist movement.

  • Surgeons carefully identified the radialis muscle during the procedure.

  • Care was taken to preserve the flexor carpi radialis tendon as it passes through the groove in the trapezium.

    Academic text (2015)

  • In anatomy class, we learned about the radialis structures associated with the forearm.

Compounds

arteria radialis
  • Specialized
5.7

An artery in the forearm that runs from below the elbow to the wrist

nervus radialis
  • Specialized
9.2

A large arm nerve that controls feeling on the back of the hand and muscles to straighten wrist and fingers

vena radialis
  • Specialized
8.2

A vein on the thumb side of the lower arm that carries blood from the hand

Surface Forms

radialis singular
radiales plural

Morphology

radialis = radius (transparent) = radius + alis

The anatomical noun sense is the same lexical formation (radius + '-alis'); the term is an adjectival form used as a name for a structure, so the relation to 'radius' is clear.

Etymology

Radialis as a name for a muscle comes from Latin radius, 'ray' or 'spoke', because these muscles lie along the radius bone toward the thumb; so a radialis is a muscle on the thumb side of the forearm.