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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