Destot's space

English

Etymology

Named for radiologist Étienne Destot (1864-1918).

Noun

Destot's space

1. (anatomy) The space in the wrist bounded by the hamate, capitate, triquetral and lunate bones.
   • 2003, Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, W. W. Norton & Company, page 163:

     The wound on the back of the hand on the Shroud of Turin appears on the thumb side of the wrist, and any anatomy textbook will confirm that Destot's space is on the pinkie side of the wrist, where Barbet indeed sank his nails into his cadaver wrists."

See also

• space of Destot