# What are the wrist bones called?

The wrist bones is called the carpals. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a group of eight small bones arranged in two rows of four.

## What it means

- A group of eight small bones arranged in two rows of four.
- Named (from thumb side) scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform in the proximal row; trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate in the distal row.
- Joined by short ligaments to form the wrist.

## Action steps

1. Between the forearm bones and the metacarpals of the hand.
2. Form the roof and floor of the carpal tunnel.
3. The scaphoid and lunate meet the radius at the wrist joint.

## Sources

- [Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (1918)](https://www.bartleby.com/107/)

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