Baby's Hand
by Science Photo Library
Title
Baby's Hand
Artist
Science Photo Library
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Baby's hand. X-ray showing the bones in the hand of a normal baby. Bones appear white. This X-ray reveals wide spaces of cartilage between each finger bone at each joint, where bone growth and ossification (bone formation) must still take place. The wrist bones (centre) are almost completely absent as they are made almost entirely of cartilage at this age. As the child gets older the bones will lengthen and ossify to be easily seen on X-rays and the joint spaces will close to form the adult pattern. At the lower left of the image are the radius and ulna bones of the forearm.
Uploaded
September 21st, 2018
Embed
Share
Similar Subjects
Similar Images
Comments (1)
Recently Viewed
