Skeletal system
Pisiform bone
Os pisiforme
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Upper limb, Hand
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Bones of free part of upper limb
DescriptionUnreviewed
The pisiform bone ( or), also spelled pisiforme (from the Latin pisifomis, pea-shaped), is a small knobbly, sesamoid bone that is found in the wrist.
It forms the ulnar border of the carpal tunnel.
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Muscle attachments
Muscles that arise here
Names
- Latin
- Os pisiforme
- English
- Pisiform bone
- French
- Os pisiforme
- Spanish
- Hueso pisiforme
- Portuguese
- Osso pisiforme
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
- Lunate bone
- 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
- 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