carpometacarpal

He remembered that the thumb joint is officially called the carpometacarpal joint, although it is informally referred to as the 'saddle joint.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

-- The carpal bones as they articulate with one another and with the radius and metacarpal bones, as classed by anatomists, form three distinct articular parts of the joint as a whole and are known as radiocarpal, intercarpal and carpometacarpal.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

The carpometacarpal portion of the articulation is the part which is usually affected.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

Walters [18] reports a case of carpometacarpal luxation in a pony wherein reduction was spontaneous and an uneventful recovery followed.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

—The movements permitted in the carpometacarpal articulations of the fingers are limited to slight gliding of the articular surfaces upon each other, the extent of which varies in the different joints.

III. Syndesmology. 6h. Carpometacarpal Articulations 1918

The best example of this form is the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb.

III. Syndesmology. 3. Classification of Joints 1918

The synovial membrane for these joints is continuous with that of the carpometacarpal articulations.

III. Syndesmology. 6i. Intermetacarpal Articulations 1918

The prolongation between the greater and lesser multangulars, or that between the lesser multangular and capitate, is, owing to the absence of the interosseous ligament, often continuous with the cavity of the carpometacarpal joints, sometimes of the second, third, fourth, and fifth metacarpal bones, sometimes of the second and third only.

III. Syndesmology. 6g. Intercarpal Articulations 1918

—The interosseous ligaments consist of short, thick fibers, and are limited to one part of the carpometacarpal articulation; they connect the contiguous inferior angles of the capitate and hamate with the adjacent surfaces of the third and fourth metacarpal bones.

III. Syndesmology. 6h. Carpometacarpal Articulations 1918

Occasionally the fourth and fifth carpometacarpal joints have a separate synovial membrane.

III. Syndesmology. 6h. Carpometacarpal Articulations 1918