Muscular system
Flexor digitorum brevis
Flexor brevis digitorum
- System
- Muscular system
- Regions
- Lower limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Muscles of foot
DescriptionUnreviewed
The flexor digitorum brevis is a muscle which lies in the middle of the sole of the foot, immediately above the central part of the plantar aponeurosis, with which it is firmly united.
Its deep surface is separated from the lateral plantar vessels and nerves by a thin layer of fascia.
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Muscle attachments
Origin
Insertion
Names
- Latin
- Flexor brevis digitorum
- English
- Flexor digitorum brevis
- French
- Court fléchisseur des orteils
- Spanish
- Flexor corto de los dedos
- Portuguese
- Flexor 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 digitorum brevis
- Extensor hallucis brevis
- Flexor digiti minimi of foot
- Flexor hallucis brevis
- Lumbrical muscles of foot
- Plantar interossei muscles
- Quadratus plantae muscle