pisiform bone , także: pisiform

Sometimes the scaphoid, triquetrum, and pisiform bones are divided into two.

The pisiform bone is found in the proximal row of the carpus.

The fifth runs between the adjacent margins of the triangular and pisiform bones.

Pisiform bones in the wrist resembled pisum, which is Latin for "peas."

On its medial side is the pisiform bone, and, somewhat behind the artery, the ulnar nerve.

Piazza, 36, broke the pisiform bone, which helps connect to the pinkie and is one of the smallest bones in the body.

The pisiform bone may be known by its small size, and by its presenting a single articular facet.

Pisiform bone fractures

The ligaments connecting the pisiform bone are the articular capsule and the two volar ligaments.

The pisiform bone is somewhat unusual, in that it first appears in primitive reptiles, and is never found in amphibians.

The pisiform bone (also called pisiforme or lentiform bone) is a small knobbly, pea-shaped wrist bone.

The abductor digiti minimi arises from the pisiform bone, the pisohamate ligament, and the flexor retinaculum.

The triangular bone may be distinguished by its pyramidal shape, and by an oval isolated facet for articulation with the pisiform bone.

The Mets expect Reed to miss two to three weeks after learning yesterday that the right-hander has a nondisplaced fracture of the pisiform bone on the wrist.

A bored guard ran Maro's left wrist under a viral scanner and the digital ID coded into the prisoner's pisiform bone made the audio squeal.

Instead the medial attachment is to the most medial of the carpal bones, the triquetrum (or triquetral bone) and pisiformis (or pisiform bone).

The Ulnar carpal collateral ligament is a strong fibrous band that crosses from the tip of the Ulnar styloid process to the triquetral and pisiform bones.

Its insertion is into the pisiform bone and then via ligaments into the hamate bone and 5th metacarpal bone, acting to flex and adduct the wrist joint.

Occasionally accessory bones are found in the carpus, but of more than 20 such described bones, only four (the central, styloid, secondary trapezoid, and secondary pisiform bones) are considered to be proven accessory bones.

The palmar branch represents the continuation of the ulnar nerve as it crosses the flexor retinaculum of the hand on the lateral side of the pisiform bone, medial to and a little behind the ulnar artery.

And so Piazza, who sustained a hairline fracture of the pisiform bone when a foul tip struck the base of his left hand during Tuesday night's game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, remained optimistic that he could play this weekend.

Partial or complete insertion into the fascia of the forearm, into the tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris and pisiform bone, into the scaphoid, and into the muscles of the little finger have been observed.

Merriamosaurs are characterized by features in their pectoral girdles and limb bones, including an extensive connection between the scapula and the coracoid bone, the absence of the first metacarpal and the absence of a pisiform bone.

The triquetral bone (also called triquetrum, pyramidal, three-cornered or triangular bone, and formerly cuneiform bone) is located in the wrist on the medial side of the proximal row of the carpus between the lunate and pisiform bones.

Palpation: the best place to palpate the TFCC is between the extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU) and the flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU), distal to the ulnar styloid and proximal to the pisiform bone.