Muscular system
Extensor digitorum brevis
Extensor brevis digitorum
- System
- Muscular system
- Regions
- Lower limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Muscles of foot
DescriptionUnreviewed
The extensor digitorum brevis muscle (sometimes EDB) is a muscle on the upper surface of the foot that helps extend digits 2 through 4.
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Muscle attachments
Insertion
Names
- Latin
- Extensor brevis digitorum
- English
- Extensor digitorum brevis
- French
- Court extenseur des orteils
- Spanish
- Extensor corto de los dedos
- Portuguese
- Extensor digitorum brevis
In the same group
- (Opponens digiti minimi muscle of foot)
- Abductor digiti minimi of foot
- Abductor hallucis
- Adductor hallucis
- Dorsal interossei muscles of foot
- Extensor hallucis brevis
- Flexor digiti minimi of foot
- Flexor digitorum brevis
- Flexor hallucis brevis
- Lumbrical muscles of foot
- Plantar interossei muscles
- Quadratus plantae muscle