metacarpal bone
A bone that is part of the metacarpal skeleton. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the metacarpal bone is
A bone that is part of the metacarpal skeleton. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the metacarpal 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 metacarpal bone connects to
The atlas records 42 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex and appendicular skeleton, and 13 more.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the metacarpal 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 metacarpal. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002374, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, autopod region, forelimb and forelimb skeleton, and 10 more.
- A kind of: bone element, endochondral bone, long bone, manus bone and skeletal element.
- Connected to: carpal bone and phalanx of manus.
- connects: carpometacarpal joint, intermetacarpal joint, metacarpophalangeal joint, metacarpophalangeal joint of manual digit 1, metacarpophalangeal joint of manual digit 2 and metacarpophalangeal joint of manual digit 3, and 2 more.
- subtype: metacarpal bone of digit 1, metacarpal bone of digit 2, metacarpal bone of digit 3, metacarpal bone of digit 4 and metacarpal bone of digit 5.
- contains: diaphysis of metacarpal bone, distal epiphysis of metacarpal bone, epiphysis of metacarpal bone and proximal epiphysis of metacarpal bone.
- inserts into: flexor carpi radialis muscle.
- originates from: interosseous muscle of manus.
Questions
Where is the metacarpal 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 metacarpal bone connect to?
Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, autopod region, forelimb and forelimb skeleton, and 10 more.
Is the metacarpal 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.