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What does carpometacarpal mean?

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Adjective
  1. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to carpometacarpus, fusion of digits.
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The fracture extends to the carpometacarpal joint and the displacement is made worse and more unstable by the abductor muscles of the first metacarpal.
These involved, in addition to the base of the first carpometacarpal joint, the trapezium, navicular, surrounding fascial structures or the abductor pollicis brevis muscle.
An example of a sellar joint is the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb.
What are we supposed to believe about the sketchy information coming out about the injuriness of Peyton Manning's carpometacarpal joint?
The carpometacarpal portion of the articulation is the part which is usually affected.
Sometimes the fracture occurs at the base and the carpometacarpal joint, and there is the possibility of an associated dislocation or subluxation of the joint.

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