Dissection of plantar aspect of left foot

Interosseous muscles and plantar arch, close-up plantar view

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Dissection of plantar aspect of left foot

Interosseous muscles and plantar arch, close-up plantar view

Details of the dissection illustrated in the previous view are shown in this close-up photograph of the interossei, their nerves and the branches of the plantar arch related to them.

1. Common digital artery
2. Groove for flexor tendons of third toe
3. Adductor hallucis muscle (cut off at insertion)
4. 1st and 2nd dorsal interosseous muscles (3rd and 4th dorsal interossei not labeled)
5. Metatarsal plantar arteries
6. Metatarsal bone
7. Plantar venous arch
8. Plantar arch
9. 1st tarsometatarsal articular capsule
10. Area of origin of adductor hallucis muscle (oblique head)
11. 4th lumbrical muscle
12. Abductor digiti minimi muscle
13. Plantar interosseous muscles
14. Opponens digiti minimi muscle (nearly inseparable from flexor digiti minimi brevis)
15. Flexor digiti minimi brevis muscle
16. Plantar metatarsal artery
17. Branch of lateral plantar nerve to flexor digiti minimi brevis
18. Lateral plantar nerve
19. Lateral intermuscular septum
20. Tendon of peroneus longus muscle