Head leg
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Wrist (schematic):
A – H = carpal bones
A scaphoid bone ( scaphoid bone )
B moon bone ( os lunatum )
C triangular bone ( os triquetrum )
D pea bone ( os pisiforme )
E large polygonal bone ( trapezium )
F small polygonal bone ( os trapezoideum )
G headbone ( os capitatum )
H hook bone ( os hamatum ) 1 spoke ( radius )
2 ulna ( ulna )
3 metacarpal bones ( ossa metacarpalia )
A – H = carpal bones
2 ulna ( ulna )
3 metacarpal bones ( ossa metacarpalia )
The head leg ( lat. Capitate ) is the largest of the eight wrist bones , belonging to the distal ( distal ) series of short bones to.
Form ( proximal ), there is an articulated connection with the navicular ( scaphoid ) and the lunate ( lunate a), side ( lateral ) to the small trapezoid ( trapezoid ), towards the middle ( medial ) with the hook leg ( hamate ) and away from the body ( distal ) mainly with the third, partly also with the second and fourth metacarpal bones ( os metacarpale secundum , tertium and quartum ).
literature
- W. Platzer: Pocket Atlas of Anatomy, Volume 1 - Musculoskeletal System . Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, p. 126. ISBN 3-13-492009-3