THE HANDS

What role do nails play?

• Fingernails protect sensitive fingertips.

• Fingernails protect sensitive fingertips. We don't need our nails to survive, but they support our fingertips, protect them from injury, and help us grasp small objects.

• We don't need nails to survive

• Without fingernails, we would have trouble scratching if itchy or undoing a knot.

What are fingers used for?

• They are also the ten tips of the extremities that can appreciate the shape, size, texture and temperature of an object.

• to eat

• The little or fifth finger is essential to provide balance and stability in each step we take.

• facilitates balance and position of the sole of the foot. With his shoes on, the truth is that he hardly exercises.

What is the exhibition about?

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what are knuckles?

• usually it is for about 3 weeks. Most fractures heal well. After healing the knuckles

• by cracking the knuckles, we make the synovial capsule dilate and with it the gases inside it that explode and disappear for a few minutes

• bones

• They are located where two bones meet, and are bathed in a fluid called synovial fluid, which lubricates the joints.

How many bones

does a hand have?

• the total number of bones of the hand are 28

• the total number of bones of the hand are 10

• The total number of bones of the hand are 27

  and these are divided into: Bones of the wrist

  or carpus. Bones of the palm or metacarpus.

  
  

  Bones of the fingers or digital

• the total number of bones of the hand are 17

CARPAL BONE

• They are located at the ends of the forearms, are prehensile and have five fingers each.

• In anatomy, the carpus is a part of the skeleton of

  the upper extremity located at the wrist.

• They are arranged in two rows: proximal and distal.

• The hands are part of the extremities of the human body, being the fourth segment of the upper or

  thoracic limb.

• It is composed of eight bones joined by ligaments and

  forming the skeleton of the wrist.

HOW DO YOU THINK OF OUR THEME?

What is the name of the bone we have in our hand?

Digital bones

• Proximal phalanges: located at the base of the finger, in the

  part known as the knuckles.

• In anatomy, the carpus is a part of the skeleton of

  the upper extremity located at the wrist.

• The fingers of the hands or digits are called

  phalanges and each finger has three phalanges,

  except for the thumb, which has two:

• They are arranged in two rows: proximal and distal.

What is the space between the fingers called?