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 )
    Drawing of the head bone showing the articular surfaces

    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