A comminuted fracture is when the bone breaks into several pieces A transverse fracture is when the fracture line is perpendicular to the shaft (long part) of the bone. An oblique fracture is when ...

That’s a raised area where two ligaments attach. Tibia shaft. The shaft is the long part of the bone that bears your weight. It has an anterior border you can feel just under your skin on your ...

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

We developed a customized protocol for evaluation of volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD) and microstructure at the metacarpal head (MH), metacarpal shaft (MS) and ultra-ultra-distal (UUD ...

The forelimb, with a “bulge” of abnormal bone growth near the shaft, belonged to a “subadult” that had completed its most rapid growth phase but was still growing, according to researchers.