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