Radial styloid process
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| Bone: Radial styloid process | ||
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| Bones of left forearm. Anterior aspect. (Styloid process of radius labeled at bottom right.) | ||
| Latin | processus styloideus radii | |
| Gray's | subject #53 220 | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | p_34/12667668 | |
The lateral surface of the radius is prolonged obliquely downward into a strong, conical projection, the styloid process, which gives attachment by its base to the tendon of the Brachioradialis, and by its apex to the radial collateral ligament of the wrist-joint.
The lateral surface of this process is marked by a flat groove, for the tendons of the Abductor pollicis longus and Extensor pollicis brevis.
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