APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Each hand consists of 27 bones, divided between the wrist bones (carpals), the palm bones (metacarpals), and the finger bones (phalanges).

Detailed explanation-2: -The palm has five bones known as metacarpal bones, one to each of the 5 digits. These metacarpals have a head, a shaft, and a base.

Detailed explanation-3: -Carpal bones are 8 short bones arranged in 2 rows, each with 4 bones in the region of the wrist. From lateral to medial, bones of the proximal row are the scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, and pisiform, and those of the distal row are the trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, and hamate.

Detailed explanation-4: -Phalanges. The 14 bones that are found in the fingers of each hand and also in the toes of each foot.