Metacarpal 2, left fore
Os metacarpale II
A base at the carpus, a shaft, and a head with a sagittal ridge and two palmar sesamoid bones at the fetlock.
About the metacarpal 2, left fore of the pig
Metacarpal 2, left fore is a bone of the front leg (thoracic limb), one on each side of the body. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Os metacarpale II. You can turn it above, see it in place in the front leg of the pig, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.
Measured on the specimen
What the metacarpal 2, left fore is in contact with in the model itself, with the share of the other structure’s surface it covers. A contact is not always a joint: bones that simply lie against one another are in this list too.
- Proximal phalanx, digit 2, left fore17%
- Second carpal bone15%
- Metacarpal 5, left fore7%
- Metacarpal 3, left fore6%
Measured on the left side.
Terminology
- English
- Metacarpal 2, left fore
- Latin (NAV)
- Os metacarpale II
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the metacarpal 2, left fore
- What is the Latin name of the metacarpal 2, left fore?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the metacarpal 2, left fore is called Os metacarpale II.
- Where is the metacarpal 2, left fore of the pig?
- Metacarpal 2, left fore is a bone of the front leg (thoracic limb), one on each side of the body.
See the metacarpal 2, left fore inside the whole pig.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the pig around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.
Free for 7 days, no card. After that the skeletons stay free.
