upper appendicular skeleton - chapter 3

includes the shoulder girdle and the arm bones

flat bones that help support the arms

one of a pair of long, curved horizontal bones that attach to the upper sternum at one end and the acromion process of the scapula at the other. helps stabilize the shoulder anteriorly

upper arm bone

lower lateral arm bone parallel to the ulna

lower medial arm bone

***proximal projection of the ulna that forms the tip of the elbow

eight bones of the wrist

one of the five bones that form the middle part of the hand

one of the 14 bones that constitute the fingers of the hand, two in the thumb and three in each of the other four fingers

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