Bicapitate is a medical term used to describe a specific type of bone in the wrist. The correct pronunciation of the word is /baɪ.kəˈpɪ.tət/. The first syllable is pronounced 'bye', the second syllable is pronounced 'kuh', and the third syllable is pronounced 'pih-tayt'. The word is made up of two roots: 'bi-' meaning two, and 'capitate' referring to a bone in the wrist. The spelling reflects the Latin roots of the word, which were adopted into medical terminology.