- vaginae tendinum carpales palmares
- [TA] tendon sheaths enclosing the tendons of flexor muscles on the palmar aspect of the wrist and allowing free motion of the tendons; they occur deep to or within the flexor retinaculum.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
vaginae tendinum carpales palmares
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