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a hook-shaped wrist bone you've never thought about until it ruins your golf swing
means The hamate (os hamatum) is a wedge-shaped carpal bone on the little-finger side of your wrist, distinguished by a hook-like projection called the hamulus.
from From Latin hamatus, 'hooked' or 'furnished with hooks,' from hamus, 'a hook' — the same root that lurks behind the fishhook and the barb. Anatomists named the bone for the little hooked spur jutting from its surface, so 'hamate' is simply 'the hooky one' in scholarly Latin dress.
- latin root
- hamatus means hooked, like a tiny grappling hook
- the hook
- its hamulus bone projects out, anchoring tendons
- breaks quietly
- golfers and cyclists fracture it without realizing
- nerve neighbor
- shields the ulnar nerve through Guyon's canal
- pinky power
- controls grip strength for your last two fingers
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