Tubercle of trapezium bone
Tuberculum ossis trapezii
- Latin synonym: Tuberculum ossis multanguli majoris
Definition
The tubercle of trapezium is a bony elevation on the palmar side of trapezium, radially to the groove for flexor carpi radialis, where sometimes abductor pollicis brevis muscle attaches.
This definition incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy (20th U.S. edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1918 – from http://www.bartleby.com/107/).
