Metacarpal 4, left fore
Os metacarpale IV
A base at the carpus, a shaft, and a head with a sagittal ridge and two palmar sesamoid bones at the fetlock.
- System
- Bone
- Region
- Thoracic limb
- Sides
- Paired: left and right
Measured on the specimen
What the metacarpal 4, 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.
- Fourth carpal bone25%
- Metacarpal 3, left fore13%
- Proximal phalanx, digit 4, left fore7%
- Metacarpal 5, left fore3%
Measured on the left side.
Terminology
- English
- Metacarpal 4, left fore
- Latin (NAV)
- Os metacarpale IV
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
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- Metacarpal 5, left foreTouches it
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- Distal phalanx, digit 2, left foreSame region
- Distal phalanx, digit 3, left foreSame region
- Distal phalanx, digit 4, left foreSame region
- Distal phalanx, digit 5, left foreSame region
- HumerusSame region
- Middle phalanx, digit 2, left foreSame region
- Middle phalanx, digit 3, left foreSame region