Human Reference Atlas

Last uploaded: June 14, 2024
Preferred Name

mesopodium bone
Synonyms

mesopodial bone

mesopod bone

carpal/tarsal bone

basipodium bone

Definitions

A bone that is part of a mesopodial skeleton.

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003656

altLabel

mesopodial bone

mesopod bone

carpal/tarsal bone

basipodium bone

definition

A bone that is part of a mesopodial skeleton.

has exact synonym

mesopodial bone

mesopod bone

carpal/tarsal bone

basipodium bone

has_obo_namespace

uberon

id

UBERON:0003656

label

mesopodium bone

notation

UBERON:0003656

prefLabel

mesopodium bone

taxon_notes

The carpus (wrist) and tarsus (ankle) of land vertebrates primitively had three rows of carpal or tarsal bones. Often some of these have become lost or fused in evolution. Three proximals. In the hand humans has all three. In the foot the middle proximal appears in 5-15% of people as an os trigonum. Centrale or os centrale, on the medial side. In humans and our closest relatives the African apes (chimpanzees and gorillas) it fuses to the scaphoid where it forms the articulation with the trapezoid bone; occasionally it stays separate. In Man's foot it is the navicular. Some early land vertebrates had more than one (up to three) os centrale per hand or foot. Distals, one per finger / toe at the base of each metacarpal or metatarsal. In mammals the 4th and 5th fuse. In the horse the 1st is lost

xRef

MA:0000295

EMAPA:36579

Wikipedia:Carpus_and_tarsus_of_land_vertebrates

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0013630

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0011250

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001474

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