Radial carpal bone
Os carpi radiale
The medial bone of the proximal carpal row, taking the load from the radius. It is separate in the pig and fused with the intermediate in the carnivores.
About the radial carpal bone of the pig
Radial carpal bone 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 carpi radiale. 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 radial carpal bone 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.
Measured on the left side.
Terminology
- English
- Radial carpal bone
- Latin (NAV)
- Os carpi radiale
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the radial carpal bone
- What is the Latin name of the radial carpal bone?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the radial carpal bone is called Os carpi radiale.
- Where is the radial carpal bone of the pig?
- Radial carpal bone is a bone of the front leg (thoracic limb), one on each side of the body.
See the radial carpal bone 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.
