Skeletal system
Lunate bone
Os lunatum
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Upper limb, Hand
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Bones of free part of upper limb
DescriptionUnreviewed
The lunate bone (semilunar bone) is a carpal bone in the human hand.
It is distinguished by its deep concavity and crescentic outline.
It is situated in the center of the proximal row carpal bones, which lie between the ulna and radius and the hand.
The lunate carpal bone is situated between the lateral scaphoid bone and medial triquetral bone.
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Names
- Latin
- Os lunatum
- English
- Lunate bone
- French
- Os semilunaire
- Spanish
- Hueso lunado
- Portuguese
- Osso semilunar
In the same group
- Bones of hand
- Capitate bone
- Distal phalanx of fifth finger of hand
- Distal phalanx of first finger of hand
- Distal phalanx of fourth finger of hand
- Distal phalanx of second finger of hand
- Distal phalanx of third finger of hand
- Fifth metacarpal bone
- First metacarpal bone
- Fourth metacarpal bone
- Hamate bone
- Humerus
- Middle phalanx of fifth finger of hand
- Middle phalanx of fourth finger of hand
- Middle phalanx of second finger of hand
- Middle phalanx of third finger of hand
- Pisiform bone
- Proximal phalanx of fifth finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of first finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of fourth finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of second finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of third finger of hand
- Radius
- Scaphoid bone
- Second metacarpal bone
- Third metacarpal bone
- Trapezium bone
- Trapezoid bone
- Triquetrum bone
- Ulna