Carpal bones are those in your hand/wrist. Your shin bones are your tibia and fibula.
The shin bone is called the tibia. It is the largest bone in the leg, and its more slender partner is the fibula.
The cannon bone of a horse's leg is affected when they get bucked shins.
The both have the same structure. Like they both have 14 phalanges, they both have 5 bones in the middle called Metacarpal (in hand), Metatarsal (in foot), and they both have the wrist/ankle bones...
yes, in fact many of the names of bones are the same