Identifier: anatomydescripti1897gray (find matches)
Title: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Gray, Henry, 1825-1861 Carter, H. V. (Henry Vandyke), 1831-1897 Pick, T. Pickering (Thomas Pickering), 1841-1919
Subjects: Anatomy Human anatomy Anatomy, Surgical and topographical
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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he same order, are the trapezium, trapezoid-, os magnum,and unciform. Common Chabactees of the Carpal Bones Each bone (excepting the pisiform) presents six surfaces. Of these theanterior or palmar and the posterior or dorsal are rough, for ligamentous attach-ment ; the dorsal surface being the broader, except in the scaphoid and semi-lunar. The superior ox proximal and inferior or distal are articular, the superiorgenerally convex, the inferior concave; and the internal and external are alsoarticular when in contact with contiguous bones, otherwise rough and tubercular.The structure in all is similar, consisting of cancellous tissue enclosed in alayer of compact bone. Each bone is also developed from a single centre ofossification. Bones of the Uppeb EowScaphoid (fig. 217) The Scaphoid is the largest bone of the first row. It has received itsname from its fancied resemblance to a boat, being broad at one end, and CAEPUS 247 Fig. 215.—Bones of the left hand. Dorsal surface. PI RADIAL
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THE SKELETON Fig. 216.—Bones of the left hand. Pahnar surface. (Utrjitis FLEXOR. CARPI ULNARIS _ Sfsumold

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