Carpal Definition–adjective | 1. | pertaining to the carpus: the carpal joint. |
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Tunnel Definition–noun | 1. | an underground passage. |
| 2. | a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under an obstruction, as a city, mountain, river, harbor, or the like. |
| 3. | an approximately horizontal gallery or corridor in a mine. |
| 4. | the burrow of an animal. |
–verb (used with object) | 6. | to construct a passageway through or under: to tunnel a mountain. |
| 7. | to make or excavate (a tunnel or underground passage): to tunnel a passage under a river. |
| 8. | to move or proceed by or as if by boring a tunnel: The river tunneled its way through the mountain. |
| 9. | to pierce or hollow out, as with tunnels. |
–verb (used without object) | 10. | to make a tunnel or tunnels: to tunnel through the Alps. |
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Syndrome Definition–noun | 1. | Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like. |
| 2. | a group of related or coincident things, events, actions, etc. |
| 3. | the pattern of symptoms that characterize or indicate a particular social condition. |
| 4. | a predictable, characteristic pattern of behavior, action, etc., that tends to occur under certain circumstances: the retirement syndrome of endless golf and bridge games; t
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