Prosthetic hand with a hand palm and fingers attached to the hand palm, wherein the hand palm and fingers comprise bars and joints connecting the bars, which bars and joints provide at least one construction wherein said bars occupy a position with reference to each other depending on an external load applied to the construction, wherein the construction has an unloaded position and a plurality of loaded positions corresponding to loads applied into the palm of the hand and wherein the construction is deflected from the unloaded position, and said construction is provided with a ratchet mechanism to lock the construction in one of the plurality of loaded positions.
