Carpal bones are bones of the human hand and consists of eight wrist bones which connects hand to the forearm. The Wrist is known as carpus and is the sole cluster of bones.
- These bones don't belong to fingers and are labeled in alphabetical order from A to H. The metacarpals are thin and long bones that are connected by carpal bones in the wrist and the phalanges.
- They all are made of a base, shaft, and head. The first metacarpal is the thickest and shortest of them all. The phalanges are tubular ones in the thumb and the fingers found in the foot.
- They consist of proximal, distal, and middle phalanx. hence fourteen in total.
Hence the option D is correct that is 8 carpals, 5 metacarpals, and 14 phalanges.
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