Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy

Dissection of plantar aspect of left foot

Interosseous muscles and plantar arch, close-up plantar view

Image #202-3

KEYWORDS: Foot and toes, Muscles and tendons, Peripheral nervous system, Vasculature.

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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