Your hand consists of your wrist, palm, and fingers. The wrist has many smaller bones and joints, allowing the hand to move in different directions. It also includes the distal ends of the forearm ...

A metacarpal fracture is a break in one of the hand bones, making it hard or even impossible for the hand to work the way it usually does. A metacarpal fracture is when one or more bones in the ...

The hand might seem, at first glance, a more interesting bit of our anatomy but, as foot surgeon Kartik Hariharan showed, the foot is equally complex. Containing 26 bones, 33 joints, 19 muscles ...

An exhibition at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles features some spectacular takes on human anatomy from the ... and tendons and carefully labeled bones and organs.

An analysis of Neanderthal hand bones suggests these extinct humans ... That said, and as Bardo explained in her email, their “hand anatomy and the archaeological record makes abundantly clear ...

Short bones, including the hand's carpals and foot's tarsals, improve movement while stabilizing wrists and ankles. Flat bones are often present on the skull, encompassing the frontal and ...

Wood Jones has made a notable contribution not only to the literature of human anatomy ... various tissues forming the hand—viz. the skin, nails, fasciæ, bones, muscles, vessels, and nerves ...

Equipped with touch pads and pressure sensors, the robotic hand has 19 tendon-like structures (in humans, tendons are the fibrous connective tissues that connect bones and muscles) that allow it ...