H A N D S

I tend to get random hobbies or interests, I wouldn’t call them hyperfixations because I believe (correct me if I’m wrong pls) that a hyperfixation is where you focus on a certain topic to the point of becoming unaware of your surroundings (ie, forgetting to eat, sleep, finish a project), and mine only last a few days and aren’t impacting my life in any real way.

Anyway, my most recent one was and still is hand bones. Just bones… in the hand. You can’t tell me they’re not cool.

So anyway, nerd shit or whatever.

The carpals are eight bones that make your wrist and connect your hand to your forearm, they also allow your thumb to move. Carpals:

Scaphoid, capitate, hamate, lunate, triquetrum, trapezoid, trapezium, pisiform

Metacarpals at the bones in your palm, connecting to the carpals and the phalanges.

Phalanges are bones in both your fingers and your toes.

Palmar refers to the palm side of your hand.

Distal refers to the back of your hand.

Proximal refers to the middle/beginning of your finger.

Distal is also used to describe the part of your finger that is farthest from the hand.

The DIP is the distal interphalangeal joint, or the last knuckle from your hand.

The PIP is the proximal interphalangeal joint, the closest middle knuckle.

The MCP is the metacarpophalangeal joint, the first knuckle.

The carpometacarpal is the area where the metacarpal bones connect to the carpal bones.

The basal carpometacarpal in where your thumb metacarpal meets the carpals.

The interphalangeal joint is the last thumb joint.

The metacarpalphalangeal joint is the first thumb joint.

The lateral side is the one farthest from your midline, (middle of your body), depending on which way your arm is faced, though in autonomy you always see the hands faces palm up, which is why the lateral side is most often on the same side as your radius.

Your medial side is the opposite of your lateral side, the closer side to your midline and often on the same side as your ulna.

The ulna is the longer but skinnier of the two arm bones on the medial side.

The radius is the shorter but thicker of the two arm bones on the lateral side.

These two forearm bones connect to the single upper arm bone, the humerus, to create the elbow joint.