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What bone is in the palm?

Metacarpal bones


A rib is an example of a bone?

Short bones are bones that are the same length and width, like those in the palm of you hand. The common image of a bone (like you'd give to a dog) are long bones. Based on this, ribs are too long to be a short bone.


Where is the matacarpal bone?

it's the bones in the palm of your hands.


What bones make up the palm?

The bones of the palm, also known as the metacarpal bones, are five cylindrical bones situated in the middle of the hand. These bones connect the wrist bones to the bones of the fingers. Each finger has three phalanges, except for the thumb, which has two.


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)


What is the scientific name for palm bone?

The hand is one of the more complex features of the skeletal system. The first and foremost reason is that the hand is not made from 1-2 connecting bones. In fact, the hand contains exactly 27 bones connected by ligaments and other soft tissue. The palmar (palm) region of the hand contains 8 of the 27 bones known as the Carpals.


Are bones classified according to structure?

long short flat seasmoid irregular


What bone is fused together and are immovable?

i think that it is the palm bones that can't move at all.


What is the bone in your palm called?

Metarcarpals


Is the toe an example of a long bone?

No, a toe is made up of several bones, none of them a long bone. Long bones are the bones that connect at your knee and elbow, bones like the femur.


What type of bone develops on the edges of long bones?

Compact bone is found as a tube around long bones.


What is a Long bones?

i think it is the thigh bone... just gonna add on to your answer your right though the longest bone is the femur. If you are looking for what the long bones are they are the Bones of the thigh, the bones of the forearms, bones of the fingers and bones of the legs. Your Ribcage bones are NOT long bones.