How To Use pisiform In A Sentence
- It lies to the radial side of the pisiform bone and the ulnar side of the hook of the hamate (the bones forming a protective canal for the artery), which is covered by the palmer carpal ligament.
- The slip is sometimes joined or replaced by a muscular fasciculus arising from, or in the neighborhood of, the pisiform bone.
- Calori found a small muscle passing from the hamate to the pisiform bone.
- Passing through the cubital region, it descends to the pisiform region proximal to the palm and enters the palm.
- In front the flexor tendons are cleared from the carpus, the pisiform bone separated from the others though not removed, and the hook of the unciform divided by pliers. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
- The ulnar nerve, D E, lies on the ulnar border of the artery, and both are in general to be found ranging along the radial side of the tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris muscle, T, and the pisiform bone, G. Surgical Anatomy
- (trapezium) can be felt between the radial styloid and the ball of the thumb, a little below the radial styloid; and the pisiform and hook of the hamatum (unciform) are palpable, slightly below and in front of the ulnar styloid. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
- The flexor carpi ulnaris inserts on the pisiform.
- In addition, some fibers join the trapezium and trapezoid with the scaphoid, others pass between the hamate and triquetral bones, and, finally, a separate band of the same ligament is joined to the pisiform bone.
- The examiner's thumbs are placed on either side of the bony eminences of the tunnel (the scaphoid on one side and the pisiform and hamate on the other.)
