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What is a raDius a long bone or a short bone?

It is the long bone in your arm that runs from the thumb side of your wrist, up to your elbow, the inside bone. The outside bone is called the Ulna.


What kind of bone is the radius?

Iin anatomy, the outer of the two bones of the forearmwhen viewed with the palm facing forward. All land vertebrates have this bone. In humans it is shorter than the other bone of the forearm, the ulna.


What type of a bone is the radius?

The radius is a long bone.


Is the radius bone or ulna bone on your thumb side?

Your Radius is on the thumb side of ur body.


What is the shorter lateral bone of the forearm?

The 'Ulna'. It's your 'funny bone' bone, more or less.


What Bone the side of the thumb?

it is the radius


What is another name for the radius and ulna bone?

-Ulna bone: elbow bone -Radius bone: Forearm bone The radius is the bone of the forearm that extends from the lateral side of the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist. The radius is situated on the lateral side of the ulna, which exceeds it in length and size. It is a long bone, prism-shaped and slightly curved longitudinally.


What type of bone is radius?

an arm bone


What tipe of bone is a radius?

Forearm bone


What is the lateral bone of the forearm?

In anatomical position the palms are facing up, making the ulna the medial bone of the forearm. The ulna is on the pinky side, and radius is on the thumb side.


Is the ulna a short bone or a flat bone?

The ulna articulates with:the humerus at its proximal end (end closest to the elbow)the radius at its radial notch (near the top part of the ulna) and at the ulnar notch (near the bottom part of the ulna)the wrist (separated by a fibrocartilaginous disc) at its distal end (end closest to the hand)


When shooting in netball what bones are used?

the bones used in shooting in netball is the humerus (long bone), ulna (long bone), radius (long bone), wrist - carpals and metacarpals (short bones), femur (long bone), patella (flat bone), tibia (long bone) and the fibula (long bone)