The metacarpals are the five long hand bones between your wrist and fingers. They make up the palm of your hand and are visible through the skin on the back of your hand. Each metacarpal bone ...

This article will discuss the anatomy of the trapezium bone ... The inferior surface touches the first metacarpal bone, also known as the thumb. The dorsal, or rear-facing, surface of the ...

A metacarpal fracture is a break in one of the hand bones, making it hard or even impossible for the hand to work the way it usually does. A metacarpal fracture is when one or more bones in the ...

Familiarity with the terms used to describe the anatomy of the hand is important ... the metacarpophalangeal joint between the metacarpal bone and the proximal phalanx, the proximal ...

[In Images: The Oddities of Human Anatomy] Until now ... The scientists discovered a third metacarpal bone in northern Kenya, west of Lake Turkana. The fossil was found near the sites where ...

Your hand and wrist anatomy includes many types of bones ... The top row consists of the distal carpals and connects to the metacarpal bones. These include the trapezium, trapezoid, capitate ...

In an anatomical comparison of the third metacarpal, or cannon bone, among Thoroughbred racehorses ... a doctoral candidate in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at the Johns Hopkins ...