The metacarpal bones
Ossa metacarpalia
The five bones of the palm, one for each digit of the forepaw.
- Region
- Thoracic limb
- Members
- 5
- With a page
- None
How they differ along the set
What changes from one end of the series to the other, which is most of what there is to know about any one of them.
- Five, the bones of the palm.Reighard & Jennings 1901, the bones of the fore limb
- The first is the shortest.Reighard & Jennings 1901, the bones of the fore limb
- The third is the longest, with a base that is rhomboidal.Reighard & Jennings 1901, the bones of the fore limb
The members
In order along the set. Any one of them can be singled out in the model above, with the picker beneath it.
- Metacarpal 1, left foreOs metacarpale I
- Metacarpal 2, left foreOs metacarpale II
- Metacarpal 3, left foreOs metacarpale III
- Metacarpal 4, left foreOs metacarpale IV
- Metacarpal 5, left foreOs metacarpale V