The wrist bones connect to the hand’s metacarpal bones. These are the largest bones of the hand. The ends of these five bones touch the wrist and create the skeletal structure for the palm. The metacarpals are numbered one through five. The thumb is number one and the pinky is number five.

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Fingers have a complex anatomy. Each finger has 3 phalanges (bones) and 3 hinged joints; the thumb has two of each. Ligaments connect finger bones and help keep them in place. Tendons connect muscles to bones.

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Anatomy of the Hand and Wrist: Bones, Muscles, Tendons, Nerves. The wrist links the hand to the arm. The wrist is a complex mechanical system of 8 small bones known as the carpal bones. The carpal bones are arranged in 2 interrelated rows. One row connects with the ends of the bones in the forearm— radius and ulna.

It is capable of various movements like flexion, extension, abduction and adduction. It also facilitates the passage of tendons and various neurovascular structures from the forearm to the hand. The bones of the hand can be divided into three distinct groups:

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The nerve powers almost all of the small muscles in the hand including the hypothenar muscles, the lumbricals to the ring and small finger, the palmar and dorsal interossei muscles, the adductor pollicus, and the deep head of the flexor pollicus brevis.

Anatomy of the Hand and Wrist: Bones, Muscles, Tendons, Nerves. The wrist links the hand to the arm. The wrist is a complex mechanical system of 8 small bones known as the carpal bones. The carpal bones are arranged in 2 interrelated rows. One row connects with the ends of the bones in the forearm— radius and ulna.

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