It means crescent shaped.
The lunate bone is a carpal located in the hand.
The lunate bone is classified as a carpal bone in the wrist. It is one of the eight small bones that make up the carpal bones in the human hand.
The term for a large rounded articulating knob is "lunate."
The carpus, also known as the wrist bones, consists of eight bones, including the scaphoid, lunate, and triquetrum.
Proximal row (lateral to medial): scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform bones.
An antisigma is a reversed lunate sigma, the symbol Ↄ.
lunate
semi-lunar, lunate, sickle, new moon, meniscus
Ulna
Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetrum, Pisiform, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, and Hamate.
The joint between radius and scaphoid + lunate should fall into the category of an ellipsoid joint.
The short bones found in the wrist; scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate and hamate.