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What are the 26 bones a humans hand?

Answer:

Number of bones In the hands (54):

Carpal (wrist) bones:


scaphoid bone (2)
lunate bone (2)
triquetral bone (2)
pisiform bone (2)
trapezium (2)
trapezoid bone (2)
capitate bone (2)
hamate bone (2)

Metacarpus (palm) bones:
metacarpal bones (5 × 2)

Digits of the hand (finger bones or phalanges):
proximal phalanges (5 × 2)
intermediate phalanges (4 × 2)
distal phalanges (5 × 2)

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