Third carpal bone
Os carpale III
One of the distal row of carpal bones, between the proximal row and the metacarpus.
About the third carpal bone of the pig
Third 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 III. 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 third 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
- Third carpal bone
- Latin (NAV)
- Os carpale III
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the third carpal bone
- What is the Latin name of the third carpal bone?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the third carpal bone is called Os carpale III.
- Where is the third carpal bone of the pig?
- Third carpal bone is a bone of the front leg (thoracic limb), one on each side of the body.
See the third 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.
