carpal tunnel syndrome

English

Noun

carpal tunnel syndrome

1. (neurology) form of repetitive strain injury caused by compression of the median nerve travelling through the carpal tunnel.

Synonyms

• CTS

Translations

repetitive stress injury

• Catalan: síndrome del túnel carpià, síndrome del canal carpià
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 腕管綜合症／腕管综合症 (wun² gun² zung³ hap⁶ zing³), 滑鼠手 (waat⁶ syu² sau²) (informal)

  Mandarin: 腕管綜合徵／腕管综合征 (wànguǎn zōnghézhēng, wànguǎn zònghézhēng) (mainland China), 腕隧道症候羣 (zh) (wàn suìdào zhènghòuqún), 腕隧道症候群 (zh) (wàn suìdào zhènghòuqún) (Taiwan), 腕道症候羣, 腕道症候群 (wàndào zhènghòuqún) (Taiwan), 滑鼠手 (huáshúshǒu) (Taiwan, informal), 鼠標手／鼠标手 (shǔbiāoshǒu) (mainland China, informal)

• Czech: syndrom karpálního tunelu
• Dutch: Carpaletunnelsyndroom
• Esperanto: karpetunela sindromo
• Finnish: rannekanavaoireyhtymä (fi)
• French: syndrome du canal carpien m
• German: Karpaltunnelsyndrom n
• Italian: sindrome del tunnel carpale f
• Portuguese: síndrome do túnel carpal
• Romanian: sindrom de tunel carpian n
• Russian: синдро́м запя́стного кана́ла m (sindróm zapjástnovo kanála)
• Spanish: síndrome del túnel carpiano m
• Swedish: Karpaltunnelsyndrom
• Turkish: Karpal Tünel Sendromu