Destot's space

English Etymology Named for radiologist Étienne Destot (1864-1918). Noun ? en anatomy The space in the wrist bounded by the hamate, capitate, triquetral and lunate bones. en 2003 Mary Roach Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers W. W. Norton & Company 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 en eponyms