Skeletal system
Triquetrum bone
Os triquetrum
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Upper limb, Hand
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Bones of free part of upper limb
DescriptionUnreviewed
The triquetral bone also called triquetrum, pyramidal, three-faced, and formerly cuneiform bone) is located in the wrist on the medial side of the proximal row of the carpus between the lunate and pisiform bones.
It is on the ulnar side of the hand, but does not articulate with the ulna.
It connects with the pisiform, hamate, and lunate bones.
It is the 3rd most commonly fractured carpal bone.
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Names
- Latin
- Os triquetrum
- English
- Triquetrum bone
- French
- Os pyramidal
- Spanish
- Hueso triquetral
- Portuguese
- Osso piramidal
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
- Third metacarpal bone
- Trapezium bone
- Trapezoid bone
- Ulna