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The forearm bones (ossa antebrachii) consist of two bones. The ulnar bone is medially located, laterally - the radius bone. These bones touch each other only at their ends, between their bodies there is an intercostal space of the forearm. Each bone consists of a body and two ends. The bones of the bones are triangular in shape with three surfaces and three edges: one surface is turned back, the other is forward, the third near the radial bone is lateral, and the ulnar is medial. Of the three edges, one acute separating the anterior surface from the posterior one faces the interosseous space. This is the interosseous margin (margo interosseus). Each forearm bone has characteristic features.
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