Hand by the ability to be brought opposite to the fingers, a muscle action known as opposition. The skeleton of the human hand consists of 27 bones: the eight short carpal bones of the wrist are organized into a proximal row (scaphoid, lunate, triquetral and pisiform) which articulates with the bones of the forearm, and a distal row (trapezium, trapezoid, capitate and hamate), which articulates with the bases of the five metacarpal bones of the hand. The heads of the metacarpals will each in turn articulate with the bases of the proximal phalanx of the fingers and thumb. These articulations with
206 Bones 206 Bones 206 Bones is the twelfth novel by Kathy Reichs starring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. The book opens with Brennan imprisoned in an enclosed space, unable to remember where she is and how she got there. The plot is interspersed with Brennan's account of how she escapes, culminating in the final dénouement. The rest of the story is told in flashback. When Brennan has to recover the remains of a murdered elderly woman from a shallow grave in the midst of a freezing Quebec winter, she thinks she has the full set of 206 bones, but when she returns