Anatomy. The hand contains 14 phalanges —the bones that make up the fingers. The term phalanx is singular, referring to one finger bone. Each finger contains three and the thumb has two phalanges.

Anatomy. The trapezium bone is a small oblong bone that plays a role in the stability of the carpal tunnel and the thumb joint. Its shape and size, as well as its location below the thumb, cause ...

Each finger has three bones, or phalanges, except for the thumb, which instead has two phalanges. The first bone — the distal phalange — extends from the tip of the thumb to the knuckle.

A tiny bone from the little finger of a human ancestor that lived more than 1.84 million years ago in East Africa is the oldest "modern" hand bone ever found, say scientists.

There are 27 bones in the hand and wrist that allow humans to complete delicate tasks like writing or using sign language. Let's take a closer look.

Containing 26 bones, 33 joints, 19 muscles and 57 ligaments, it's one of the few pieces of anatomy that can compete with the hand for sheer complexity. Great forces.

Mercifully, the finger bone fragment, which belonged to an adolescent Denisovan female who was around 13.5 years old when she died, yielded some precious DNA, allowing scientists to confirm the ...

Media file 1: Broken finger. A severe fracture of the proximal phalanx of the small finger. This bone is broken in many small fragments and very unstable.

Forearm muscles anatomy. There are two basic categories of forearm muscles: Intrinsic. These muscles move your forearm by turning the bones inward (toward your body) and outward (away from your body).

At Riga’s Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Kalnberz has collected a bank of dead men’s fingers, trimmed the skin and soft tissues, refrigerated the remaining bone, ligaments, and ten ...

What’s believed to be Bach’s skeleton, photographed in 1895 by anatomist Wilhelm His. Andreas Otte examined the left hand, as too many bones are missing from the right hand.