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The wrist joint unites the hand with the forearm and is a complex articulation which affords two degrees of freedom to the hand: antero-posterior and transverse. These movements, together with those of pronation-supination of the forearm, position the hand for its delicate prehensile function. The wrist associates mechanically the radiocarpal joint and the midcarpal joint.
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Guyot, J. (1990). The Wrist Joint. In: Atlas of Human Limb Joints. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21647-7_6
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