Orthopaedics · Skeletal System · Medium

Scaphoid

Meaning: Boat-shaped carpal bone in the proximal row on the thumb side of the wrist.

In practice: Tenderness in the anatomical snuffbox after a fall on an outstretched hand suggests a fracture of this bone.

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