Muscular system
Transverse head of adductor pollicis
Caput transversum adductoris pollicis
- System
- Muscular system
- Regions
- Upper limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Muscles of hand
DescriptionUnreviewed
In human anatomy, the adductor pollicis muscle is a muscle in the hand that functions to adduct the thumb.
It has two heads: transverse and oblique.
It is a fleshy, flat, triangular, and fan-shaped muscle deep in the thenar compartment beneath the long flexor tendons and the lumbrical muscles at the center of the palm.
It overlies the metacarpal bones and the interosseous muscles.
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Names
- Latin
- Caput transversum adductoris pollicis
- English
- Transverse head of adductor pollicis
- French
- Chef transverse de l'adducteur du pouce
- Spanish
- Cabeza transversa del aductor del pulgar
- Portuguese
- Cabeça transversal do adutor do polegar
In the same group
- Abductor digiti minimi of hand
- Abductor pollicis brevis
- Deep head of flexor pollicis brevis
- Dorsal interossei muscles of hand
- Flexor digiti minimi 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