Muscular system
Flexor retinaculum of wrist
Retinaculum flexorium carpi
- System
- Muscular system
- Regions
- Upper limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Fasciae of upper limb
DescriptionUnreviewed
The flexor retinaculum (transverse carpal ligament, or anterior annular ligament) is a fibrous band on the palmar side of the hand near the wrist.
It arches over the carpal bones of the hands, covering them and forming the carpal tunnel.
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Names
- Latin
- Retinaculum flexorium carpi
- English
- Flexor retinaculum of wrist
- French
- Rétinaculum des fléchisseurs du poignet
- Spanish
- Retináculo de los flexores del carpo
- Portuguese
- Retináculo dos flexores do punho