Anatom3DWrist & hand
Carpus et manus · Zápěstí a ruka
Skeleton
Looks like
Eight small bones in two rows, five long ones in the palm, and fourteen finger bones.
What it does
Grips, pinches, feels and gestures.
Keeping it well
Keep the wrist straight at a keyboard, treat numbness at night early. A fall on the outstretched hand often breaks the scaphoid.
Its parts
- Palm
- Back of hand
- Skin of fingers
- Carpal bones
- Scaphoid
- Anatomical snuffbox
- Carpal tunnel
- Metacarpals
- Finger phalanges
- Thumb carpometacarpal joint
- Intrinsic hand muscles
- Flexor & extensor tendons
- Fingernails
- Palmar arterial arches
- Digital nerves
- Right hand proper
- Left hand proper
- Investing fascia of left wrist
- Common palmar digital vein
- Deep palmar venous arch
- Dorsal metacarpal vein
- First common palmar digital artery
- Fourth common palmar digital artery
- Lateral proper palmar digital artery of little finger
- Lateral proper palmar digital artery of middle finger
- Lateral proper palmar digital artery of ring finger
- Medial proper palmar digital artery of index finger
- Medial proper palmar digital artery of middle finger
- Medial proper palmar digital artery of ring finger
- Palmar metacarpal artery
- Palmar metacarpal vein
- Proper palmar digital vein of index finger
- Proper palmar digital vein of little finger
- Proper palmar digital vein of middle finger
- Proper palmar digital vein of ring finger
- Second common palmar digital artery
- Set of dorsal metacarpal arteries
- Superficial palmar venous arch
- Third common palmar digital artery
- Arteria radialis indicis
- Arteria princeps pollicis
- Articular capsule of radiocarpal joint
- Articular capsules of metacarpophalangeal joints
- Articular disc of distal radio-ulnar joint
- Collateral interphalangeal ligaments of hand
- Collateral metacarpophalangeal ligaments
- Deep transverse metacarpal ligament
- Dorsal carpometacarpal ligaments
- Dorsal intercarpal ligaments
- Dorsal metacarpal ligaments
- Dorsal radiocarpal ligament
- Dorsal scaphotriquetral ligament
- Dorsal ulnocarpal ligament
- Interosseous metacarpal ligaments
- Palmar carpometacarpal ligaments
- Palmar interphalangeal ligaments
- Palmar metacarpal ligaments
- Palmar radio-ulnar ligament
- Palmar scaphotriquetral ligament
- Radiate carpal ligament
- Scaphotrapeziotrapezoidal ligament
- Ulnocapitate ligament
- Common flexor tendon sheath
- Cruciform part of fibrous sheath of digit of hand
- Extensor retinaculum of wrist
- Palmar aponeurosis
- Synovial sheaths of digits of hand
- Tendon sheath - abd. pollicis longus - ext. pollicis brevis
- Tendon sheath of extensor carpi ulnaris
- Tendon sheath of extensor digiti minimi manus
- Tendon sheath of extensor digitorum and extensor indicis
- Tendon sheath of extensor pollicis longus
- Tendon sheath of extensors carpi radialis
- Tendon sheath of flexor carpi radialis
- Tendon sheath of flexor pollicis longus
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chilblains (pernio)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Cubital tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Fungal nail infection (onychomycosis)
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Lichen planus
- Lyme disease
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Metabolic syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rabies
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sepsis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Warts, molluscum and skin infections