Muscular system
Flexor digiti minimi of hand
Flexor digiti minimi manus
- System
- Muscular system
- Regions
- Upper limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Muscles of hand
DescriptionUnreviewed
The flexor digiti minimi brevis is a hypothenar muscle in the hand that flexes the little finger (digit V) at the metacarpophalangeal joint.
It lies lateral to the abductor digiti minimi when the hand is in anatomical position.
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Muscle attachments
Origin
Insertion
Names
- Latin
- Flexor digiti minimi manus
- English
- Flexor digiti minimi of hand
- French
- Fléchisseur du petit doigt de la main
- Spanish
- Flexor del dedo mínimo de la mano
- Portuguese
- Flexor de dedo mínimo da mão
In the same group
- Abductor digiti minimi of hand
- Abductor pollicis brevis
- Deep head of flexor pollicis brevis
- Dorsal interossei muscles 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