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What is lunate bone andwhich is carpal bone?
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It is a carpal bone: The lunate is one of 8 carpal bones which are the small bones that make up the wrist.
Answered 10/28/2017
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LUNATE: is a carpal bone or a bone of the wrist, it is one of 8 bones of the wrist. Lunate or the "moon shaped" bone it looks a bit like crescent moon or perhaps like a profile of a crescent shaped cookie. It is one of the bones of the proximal row, it articulates with the radius and is attached by interosseous ligaments to the scaphoid and triqetrum to form the proximal of 2 rows of wrist bones.
Answered 11/27/2017
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