multangular

• “We have also found a fourth, and then on the south side of the city, about the year 320, they built another wall with what we called the multangular tower, to guard against the incoming peoples on the river side of the city, again our ancestors, the English-speaking people, who were beginning to come up the river in those days.”

  Energy and Common Sense in Education and Empire

• “Roman, that curious thirteen-sided building called the multangular tower forming part of it, and also the lower part of the wall leading from this tower to Bootham Bar, the upper part being of later origin.”

  Vanishing England

• “—The radial collateral ligament extends from the tip of the styloid process of the radius to the radial side of the navicular, some of its fibers being prolonged to the greater multangular bone and the transverse carpal ligament.”

  III. Syndesmology. 1F. Radiocarpal Articulation or Wrist-joint

• “—The greater multangular articulates with four bones: the navicular proximally, the first metacarpal distally, and the lesser multangular and second metacarpal medially.”

  II. Osteology. 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus

• “—The lesser multangular articulates with four bones: the navicular proximally, second metacarpal distally, greater multangular laterally, and capitate medially.”

  II. Osteology. 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus

• “—The greater multangular bone may be distinguished by a deep groove on its volar surface.”

  II. Osteology. 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus

• “—The lesser multangular is the smallest bone in the distal row.”

  II. Osteology. 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus

• “The lateral surface articulates with the lesser multangular by a small facet at its anterior inferior angle, behind which is a rough depression for the attachment of an interosseous ligament.”

  II. Osteology. 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus

• “The inferior surface, directed downward, lateralward, and backward, is also smooth, convex, and triangular, and is divided by a slight ridge into two parts, the lateral articulating with the greater multangular, the medial with the lesser multangular.”

  II. Osteology. 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus

• “—The capitate articulates with seven bones: the navicular and lunate proximally, the second, third, and fourth metacarpals distally, the lesser multangular on the radial side, and the hamate on the ulnar side.”

  II. Osteology. 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus

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