Instead, the styliform element of Yi qi has no joints and comes directly off the carpal bones ... (palm bone), so it is probably not a finger (the authors confusingly label the three fingers ...

Let’s take a closer look. Your wrist is made up of eight small bones called the carpal bones, or the carpus. These irregularly shaped bones join your hand to the two long forearm bones ...

In the carpus he had found four perfectly distinct ossicles, the distal carpal bones becoming united to the base of the mid and outer metacarpals, the other two remaining free, though the ulnar ...