Editing Scaphoid bone (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''scaphoid'' ({{Langx|el|σκαφοειδές}}) is derived from the Greek ''skaphos'', which means "a boat", and the Greek ''eidos'', which means "kind".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Kenneth |last2=Anderson |first2=Lois E. |last3=Glanze |first3=Walter D. | name-list-style = vanc |title=[[Mosby's Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary]] |edition=4th |date=1994 |page=1396 |publisher=Mosby |location=St. Louis |isbn=978-0-8016-7225-5 |oclc=461378724 }}</ref> The name refers to the shape of the bone, supposedly reminiscent of a boat. In older literature about [[human anatomy]],<ref name="Gray-6b1-4">{{cite book | last = Gray | first = Henry | name-list-style = vanc | url = http://www.bartleby.com/107/ | section-url = http://www.bartleby.com/107/54.html | title = Anatomy of the Human Body | section = 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus | at = [http://www.bartleby.com/107/54.html#4 4] | year = 1918 | via = Bartleby.com }}</ref> the scaphoid is referred to as the navicular bone of the hand (this time from the Latin ''navis'' for boat); there is also [[navicular bone|a bone in a similar position in the foot]], which is called the navicular. The modern term for the bone in the hand is ''scaphoid''; in human anatomy the term ''navicular'' is reserved for the bone in the foot.