Second carpal bone
Os carpale II
One of the distal row of carpal bones, between the proximal row and the metacarpus.
About the second carpal bone of the pig
Second 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 carpale 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 second 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
- Second carpal bone
- Latin (NAV)
- Os carpale II
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
The second carpal bone in other animals
The same structure in the other animals in the Library, to compare.
Questions about the second carpal bone
- What is the Latin name of the second carpal bone?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the second carpal bone is called Os carpale II.
- Where is the second carpal bone of the pig?
- Second carpal bone is a bone of the front leg (thoracic limb), one on each side of the body.
See the second 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.
