A wedding ring is traditionally worn around which bone?

A) the second bone at the carpometacarpal joint
B) the distal element of the pollex
C) the proximal phalanx of digit four of the manus
D) the third metatarsal
E) None of the answers are correct.


C) the proximal phalanx of digit four of the manus

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