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Key facts
- Pronunciation
- / ˈ s k æ f ɔɪ d /
- Articulations
- Articulates with five bones, radius proximally, trapezoid bone and trapezium bone distally, capitate and lunate medially
- Latin
- os scaphoideum, os naviculare manus
- Mesh
- D021361
- Ta98
- A02.4.08.003
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
5,159 papers- [The Scaphoid bone].Der Orthopade · 2016
- Scaphoid and Carpal Bone Fracture: The Difficult Cases and Approach to Management.Hand clinics · 2023
- Bone grafting for scaphoid nonunion with dry arthroscopy.Hand surgery & rehabilitation · 2025
- Bone Graft and Fixation Options in the Surgical Management of Scaphoid Nonunion.The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons · 2024
- Bone Grafts for Scaphoid Nonunion: An Overview.Hand surgery : an international journal devoted to hand and upper limb surgery and related research : journal of the Asia-Pacific Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand · 2015
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Encyclopedic overview
Scaphoid of the right hand on X-ray (labeled S) The scaphoid bone is one of the carpal bones of the wrist. It is situated between the hand and forearm on the thumb side of the wrist (also called the lateral or radial side). It forms the radial border of the carpal tunnel. The scaphoid bone is the largest bone of the proximal row of wrist bones, its long axis being from above downward, lateralward, and forward. It is approximately the size and shape of a medium cashew nut.
Structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “scaphoid bone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.