TRAPEZIUM

Trapezium

The trapezium bone is a carpal bone in the wrist. It forms the radial border of the carpal tunnel.

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trapezium

Noun

  1. A four-sided polygon with two sides parallel; a trapezoid (modern sense)
  2. A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
  3. A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.
  4. A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.


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