Appendicular elements with smoothly finished articular surfaces, tarsus and carpus well ossified. Concussive forces run from the carpus or tarsus into the splint bones. The postcranial skeleton features a separate carpus and manus in the forelimb. Polydactyly not only affects digit number and conformation, but also carpus and tarsus conformation. It acts to flex the carpus, metacarpophalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joints of the digits. The carpus and tarsus are both described as podial elements or (clusters of) podial bones. The Latin "carpus" means wrist; hence flexor carpi is a flexor of the wrist. The third distal carpus is fused with the remaining carpal bones. The presentation is of gradual loss of the small bones in the carpus and tarsus. They are&colon; coxa, basis, ischium, merus, carpus, propodus, and dactylus. It is situated at the upper and ulnar side of the carpus. It acts to extend and adduct at the carpus/wrist from anatomical position. The carpus (wrist) has ten bones, and the hand has five stout fingers. The carpus has a dense cluster of cups, in six or seven irregular, transverse rows. Carpitis is caused by overextension of the carpus.