RAD 121 TEST TWO (UPPER EXTREMITY) QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
How many bones are in the hand? Wrist? - Answers - Hand: 19
Wrist:8
Total:27
What are the three categories of bones found in the fingers hand and wrist? - Answers -
carpals
metacarpals
phalanges
Which finger is referred to as the fifth digit? is it on the lateral side or medial side? -
Answers - Pinky. Medial.
Which finger is referred to as the first digit? Is it on the lateral side or medial side? -
Answers - Thumb. Lateral.
What is the most proximal part of the phalanges and metacarpals called? - Answers -
What is the most distal part of the phalanges in metacarpals called? - Answers - distal
phalanges
What are the common names for each digit? - Answers - 1- thumb
2-pointer finger
3- middle finger
4-ring finger
5- pinky
How many bones make up each digit? - Answers - Thumb:
2-5:
How many joints are in each digit? What are the names of the joints? - Answers - 1:
IP,MCP,CMC
2-5: DIP, PIP, MCP, CMC
What are the bones that make up the palm of your hand?
How many are there? - Answers - metacarpals. 5 in each hand
How many wrist bones are there? - Answers - 8
what are the bones of the wrist called? - Answers - carpals
, name the proximal row of carpal bones from lateral to medail - Answers - scaphoid,
lunate, triquetrum, pisiform
name the distal row of carpals from lateral to medial - Answers - trapezium, trapezoid,
capitate, hamate
What are your knuckles? - Answers - MCP (metacarpal phalangeal joint)
or distal end of metacarpals joined to base of proximal phalanges
which carpal bone is the largest? - Answers - scaphoid
which carpal bone is most commonly broke? - Answers - scaphoid
Which carpall bone is the smallest? - Answers - pisiform
which carpal bone is the most anterior? - Answers -
what are the joints between the carpals called? - Answers - inter carpal joints
What are the joints between the palm of the hand and digits called? - Answers - MCP-
metacarpal phalangeal
What are the names of the joints between the palm of the hand and wrist called? -
Answers - CMC- carpal metacarpal
What is the structural type of all of these joints called? - Answers - CMC: saddle (sellar),
gliding or plane
MCP: condylar (ellipsoid),
Intercarpal: syndesmoses
What movement type do all of these joints have? - Answers - CMC: slide or glide,
flex/extend, adduct/abduct, circumduction
MCP: flex/extend, adduct/abduct, circumduct
Intercarpal: slightly moveable
which bone of the forearm is the longest? - Answers - ulna
which bone of the forearm is on the lateral side> - Answers - radius
what part of the two bones makes up the distal radioulnar joint? - Answers - ulnar notch
and head of ulna
What parts of the two bones make up the proximal radioulnar joint? - Answers - radial
notch and radial head
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
How many bones are in the hand? Wrist? - Answers - Hand: 19
Wrist:8
Total:27
What are the three categories of bones found in the fingers hand and wrist? - Answers -
carpals
metacarpals
phalanges
Which finger is referred to as the fifth digit? is it on the lateral side or medial side? -
Answers - Pinky. Medial.
Which finger is referred to as the first digit? Is it on the lateral side or medial side? -
Answers - Thumb. Lateral.
What is the most proximal part of the phalanges and metacarpals called? - Answers -
What is the most distal part of the phalanges in metacarpals called? - Answers - distal
phalanges
What are the common names for each digit? - Answers - 1- thumb
2-pointer finger
3- middle finger
4-ring finger
5- pinky
How many bones make up each digit? - Answers - Thumb:
2-5:
How many joints are in each digit? What are the names of the joints? - Answers - 1:
IP,MCP,CMC
2-5: DIP, PIP, MCP, CMC
What are the bones that make up the palm of your hand?
How many are there? - Answers - metacarpals. 5 in each hand
How many wrist bones are there? - Answers - 8
what are the bones of the wrist called? - Answers - carpals
, name the proximal row of carpal bones from lateral to medail - Answers - scaphoid,
lunate, triquetrum, pisiform
name the distal row of carpals from lateral to medial - Answers - trapezium, trapezoid,
capitate, hamate
What are your knuckles? - Answers - MCP (metacarpal phalangeal joint)
or distal end of metacarpals joined to base of proximal phalanges
which carpal bone is the largest? - Answers - scaphoid
which carpal bone is most commonly broke? - Answers - scaphoid
Which carpall bone is the smallest? - Answers - pisiform
which carpal bone is the most anterior? - Answers -
what are the joints between the carpals called? - Answers - inter carpal joints
What are the joints between the palm of the hand and digits called? - Answers - MCP-
metacarpal phalangeal
What are the names of the joints between the palm of the hand and wrist called? -
Answers - CMC- carpal metacarpal
What is the structural type of all of these joints called? - Answers - CMC: saddle (sellar),
gliding or plane
MCP: condylar (ellipsoid),
Intercarpal: syndesmoses
What movement type do all of these joints have? - Answers - CMC: slide or glide,
flex/extend, adduct/abduct, circumduction
MCP: flex/extend, adduct/abduct, circumduct
Intercarpal: slightly moveable
which bone of the forearm is the longest? - Answers - ulna
which bone of the forearm is on the lateral side> - Answers - radius
what part of the two bones makes up the distal radioulnar joint? - Answers - ulnar notch
and head of ulna
What parts of the two bones make up the proximal radioulnar joint? - Answers - radial
notch and radial head
