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Human thumb consists of three phalanges and lacks metacarpal? A morphometric study on the long bones of the hand.

Seyed Mohammad Jafar HaeriBabak EbrahimiMarjan FaghihSeyedeh Saeideh Babazadeh-ZaviehGholam Reza Dashti
Published in: Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA (2022)
Based on the morphology of the long bones of the hand and the high similarity between the thumb metacarpal and phalanges especially the proximal phalanx of the middle finger, it can be suggested that the current thumb metacarpal is a proximal phalanx of the thumb.
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