Skeletal system
Scaphoid bone
Os scaphoideum
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Upper limb, Hand
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Bones of free part of upper limb
DescriptionUnreviewed
The scaphoid bone is one of the carpal bones of the wrist.
It is situated between the hand and forearm on the thumb side of the wrist (also called the lateral or radial side).
It forms the radial border of the carpal tunnel.
The scaphoid bone is the largest bone of the proximal row of wrist bones, its long axis being from above downward, lateralward, and forward.
It is approximately the size and shape of a medium cashew.
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Landmarks
Names
- Latin
- Os scaphoideum
- English
- Scaphoid bone
- French
- Os scaphoîde
- Spanish
- Hueso escafoides
- Portuguese
- Osso escafoide
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
- 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
- Second metacarpal bone
- Third metacarpal bone
- Trapezium bone
- Trapezoid bone
- Triquetrum bone
- Ulna