Skeletal system
Third metacarpal bone
Os tertium metacarpi
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Upper limb, Hand
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Bones of free part of upper limb
DescriptionUnreviewed
In human anatomy, the metacarpal bones or metacarpus, form the intermediate part of the skeletal hand located between the phalanges of the fingers and the carpal bones of the wrist which forms the connection to the forearm.
The metacarpal bones are analogous to the metatarsal bones in the foot.
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Muscle attachments
Muscles that arise here
Muscles that insert here
Landmarks
Names
- Latin
- Os tertium metacarpi
- English
- Third metacarpal bone
- French
- Troisième métacarpien
- Spanish
- Tercer hueso metacarpiano
- Portuguese
- Osso terceiro metacarpo
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
- Scaphoid bone
- Second metacarpal bone
- Trapezium bone
- Trapezoid bone
- Triquetrum bone
- Ulna