Chapter 4 Flashcards
How many finger bones are in the hand and wrist?
27
Finger bones are also known as:
Digits
How many bones in the fingers?
14
What are the most distal bones of the hand?
Phalanges/phalanx
How are phalanx named?
By location to the midline - distal, middle, and proximal
How many bones in the thumb? How many in the rest of the fingers?
2, 3
How are the fingers numbered?
Thumb = 1
Index finger = 2.. etc
What does each phalanx consist of?
Head, body, and base
What are metacarpals?
Bones of the palm
How many bones are in the palm?
5
What part of the metacarpal is always on a radiograph?
Thumb
Carpal bones in the 1st proximal row - starting from radial side
Scaphoid (navicular)
Lunate
Triquetrum
Pisiform
Carpal bones in the 2nd distal row - starting from radial side
Trapezium
Trapezoid
Capitate
Hamate
What are interphalangeal joints?
Spaces between two phalanx
What are distal interphalangeal joints?
Space between distal phalanx and middle phalanx
What are proximal interphalangeal joints?
Space between proximal and middle phalanx
What are the metacarpalphalangeal joints?
Space between the distal metacarpals and the proximal phalanx
What are the carpometacarpal joints?
Joints that join the carpals to the proximal metacarpals
Where is the styloid process located?
On the extreme distal ends of the radius and the ulna
Where/what is the ulnar notch?
Medial side of the radius. Head of the ulna fits into this notch
Where is included on the proxminal end of the radius?
Head and neck, and radial tuberosity
Is the radius or ulna shorter?
Radius
How does the radius articulate with the wrist?
Directly turns the wrist, primary bone
What does the ulna form?
Elbow
What are the two pointy processes of the proximal ulna?
Olecranon process
Coronoid process
Where is the coronoid tubercle located?
Medial side of ulna
What does the trochlear notch articulate with?
Distal end of the humerus
What is the radial notch?
Depression on the lateral aspect of the proximal ulna
What does the radial notch do?
Allows for rotation (pronation) of the forearm. Radius crosses over the ulna
What is the humeral condyle?
Whole distal end of the humerus; made up of 2 parts