Metacarpal 5, left fore
Os metacarpale V
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 5, 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 5, left fore11%
- Os metacarpale II4%
- Metacarpal 4, left fore4%
Measured on the left side.
Terminology
- English
- Metacarpal 5, left fore
- Latin (NAV)
- Os metacarpale V
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
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