Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
Dissection of plantar aspect of left foot
Interosseous muscles, general plantar view
Image #202-2
KEYWORDS: Foot and toes, Muscles and tendons, Peripheral nervous system, Vasculature.
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Dissection of plantar aspect of left foot
Interosseous muscles, general plantar view
The adductor hallucis (1) has been cut close to its insertion on the base of the first phalanx of the great toe. The plantar arch and the deep branch of the lateral plantar nerve have been preserved.
- Adductor hallucis muscle (cut off)
- Metatarsal plantar arteries
- Plantar arch
- Area of origin of adductor hallucis muscle (oblique head)
- Tendon of peroneus longus muscle
- Tendon of tibialis posterior muscle
- Sustentaculum tali (pointer indicates groove for flexor digitorum longus muscle)
- Proper plantar digital artery
- Common plantar digital artery
- Interosseous muscle
- Flexor digiti minimi brevis muscle
- Deep branch lateral plantar nerve
- Long plantar ligament
- Calcaneocuboid plantar ligament
- Area of origin of quadratus plantae. muscle from calcaneus