BONES OP TffE LEG AND FOOT. 21 



Eight of the hand-bones are small and lie close to the 

 wrist- joint: they are the carpal bones, h. Five, the meta- 

 carpal bones, i, lie in the palm of the hand; fourteen, the 

 phalanges, k, are placed, three in each finger and two in 

 the thumb. 



16. The Skeleton of the Leg and Foot contains, like that 

 of the arm and hand, thirty bones, and is attached to the 

 side of the sacrum by the hip-bone. 



17. The Hip-Bones (s, Fig. 3), one on each side, meet in 

 front and form, .with the sacrum, a bony ring enclosing 

 the lower part of the cavity of the abdomen or belly. 

 This ring is named the pelvis. 



18. The Bones of the Leg and Foot are: (i) the thigh- 

 bone, or femur, r, reaching from the hip-joint to the knee: 

 it is the longest bone in the body; (2) the tibia or shin- 

 bone, I, and fibula, m, running side by side from knee to 

 ankle-joint; (3) the knee-pan or patella, q, in front of the 

 knee-joint; (4) twenty-seven foot-bones. 



Seven of the foot-bones, named tarsal bones, n, lie below 

 the ankle-joint and support the heel; five metatarsal bones, 

 o, follow these; and fourteen phalanges, p, are found in 

 the toes, two in the great toe and three in each of the 

 others. 



16. How many bones in the leg ? How attached to the sacrum ? 



17. Describe the hip-bones. 



1 8. Name the leg-bones. State position of femur. Tibia. Fibula. 

 Patella. Tarsal bones. Metatarsal bones. Phalanges 



