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two rows of closely fitted polygonal bones, four in each row, 
which are tolerably equal in size. The bones of the first row 
with the bones of the forearm, form the wrist joint, and are 
arranged side by side, no one greatly exceeding or overlapping 
the rest. 
The four bones of the second row of the carpus bear the 
four long bones which support the palm of the hand. The 
Fia. 19.—The skeleton of the Hand and Foot of Man reduced from Dr. Carter’s 
drawings in Gray’s ‘ Anatomy.’ The hand is drawn to a larger scale than the 
foot. The line aa in the hand indicates the boundary between the carpus and the 
metacarpus; } ) that between the latter and the proximal phalanges; ce marks 
the ends of the distal phalanges. The line a’ a’ in the foot indicates the boundary 
between the tarsus and metatarsus; J’ b’ marks that between the metatarsus and 
the proximal phalanges ; and c’c’ bounds the ends of the distal phalanges: ca, 
the calcaneum ; as, the astragalus ; sc, the scaphoid bone in the tarsus. 
