Muscular system
Flexor digiti minimi of foot
Flexor digiti minimi pedis pedis
- System
- Muscular system
- Regions
- Lower limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Muscles of foot
DescriptionUnreviewed
The Flexor digiti minimi brevis (Flexor brevis minimi digiti, Flexor digiti quinti brevis) lies under the metatarsal bone on the little toe, and resembles one of the Interossei.
It arises from the base of the fifth metatarsal bone, and from the sheath of the Fibularis longus; its tendon is inserted into the lateral side of the base of the first phalanx of the fifth toe.
Occasionally a few of the deeper fibers are inserted into the lateral part of the distal half of the fifth metatarsal bone; these are described by some as a distinct muscle, the opponens digiti quinti.
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Muscle attachments
Insertion
Names
- Latin
- Flexor digiti minimi pedis pedis
- English
- Flexor digiti minimi of foot
- French
- Fléchisseur du petit doigt
- Spanish
- Flexor del dedo mínimo del pie
- Portuguese
- Flexor do dedo mínimo do pé
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 digitorum brevis
- Extensor hallucis brevis
- Flexor digitorum brevis
- Flexor hallucis brevis
- Lumbrical muscles of foot
- Plantar interossei muscles
- Quadratus plantae muscle