carpal bones
Eight wrist bones
The carpal bones are the eight small bones forming the wrist, arranged in two rows between the forearm and the hand.
They allow the wrist's complex range of motion—flexing, extending, and rotating.
She fractured one of her carpal bones in the fall.
Carpal tunnel syndrome involves compression of a nerve passing through these bones.
- wristHand-forearm connection
- scaphoidCarpal bone, thumb-side
- lunateCurved like a crescent
- trapezoidPolygon with parallel pair
- capitateEnlarged at the tip
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