carpal bone

A bone that is part of the carpal skeleton. Examples: scaphoid, lunate, capitate[cjm]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the carpal bone is

A bone that is part of the carpal skeleton. Examples: scaphoid, lunate, capitate[cjm]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the carpal bone is

It sits in the upper limb and hand, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the carpal bone connects to

The atlas records 23 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex and appendicular skeleton, and 9 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the carpal bone. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as bone of carpus, carpal, carpal skeleton bone and carpus bone. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001435, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, autopod region, carpal region and carpal skeleton, and 6 more.
• A kind of: bone element, endochondral bone, manus bone, short bone and skeletal element.
• Connected to: metacarpal bone.
• subtype: central carpal bone, distal carpal bone and proximal carpal bone.
• connects: carpometacarpal joint and intercarpal joint.

Questions

Where is the carpal bone?

It sits in the upper limb and hand, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the carpal bone connect to?

Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, autopod region, carpal region and carpal skeleton, and 6 more.

Is the carpal bone the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.