Muscular system
Deep head of flexor pollicis brevis
Caput profundum flexoris brevis pollicis
- System
- Muscular system
- Regions
- Upper limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Muscles of hand
DescriptionUnreviewed
The flexor pollicis brevis is a muscle in the hand that flexes the thumb.
It is one of three thenar muscles.
It has both a superficial part and a deep part.
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Muscle attachments
Origin
Names
- Latin
- Caput profundum flexoris brevis pollicis
- English
- Deep head of flexor pollicis brevis
- French
- Chef profond du court fléchisseur du pouce
- Spanish
- Cabeza profunda del flexor corto del pulgar
- Portuguese
- Cabeça profunda do flexor curto do polegar
In the same group
- Abductor digiti minimi of hand
- Abductor pollicis brevis
- Dorsal interossei muscles of hand
- Flexor digiti minimi of hand
- Lumbrical muscles of hand
- Oblique head of adductor pollicis
- Opponens digiti minimi muscle of hand
- Opponens pollicis muscle
- Palmar interossei muscles
- Superficial head of flexor pollicis brevis
- Transverse head of adductor pollicis