Muscular system
Extensor digitorum
- System
- Muscular system
- Regions
- Upper limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Superficial part of posterior compartment of forearm
DescriptionUnreviewed
The extensor digitorum muscle (also known as extensor digitorum communis) is a muscle of the posterior forearm present in humans and other animals.
It extends the medial four digits of the hand.
Extensor digitorum is innervated by the posterior interosseous nerve, which is a branch of the radial nerve.
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Muscle attachments
Insertion
- Middle phalanx of fifth finger of hand
- Middle phalanx of fourth finger of hand
- Middle phalanx of second finger of hand
- Middle phalanx of third finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of fifth finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of fourth finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of second finger of hand
- Proximal phalanx of third finger of hand
Names
- Latin
- Extensor digitorum
- English
- Extensor digitorum
- French
- Extenseur des doigts
- Spanish
- Extensor de los dedos
- Portuguese
- Extensor digitorum