Volar aspect of right hand

Nerve supply to first lumbrical muscle

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Image #101-5

Volar aspect of right hand Nerve supply to first lumbrical muscle The palmar aponeurosis has been reflected medially. A large median artery (17) enters the volar superficial arch in this specimen. 1 . Ligament of digital sheath I 2 . Adductor pollicis muscle 3 . Dorsal interosseous muscle I 4 . Proper palmar digital artery (to index finger, replacing the anterior radial index artery usually found as a branch of the deep anterior arch) 5 . Proper palmar digital nerve of median nerve 6 . Lumbrical muscle I 7 . Muscular branches of median nerve (to first lumbrical muscle) 8 . Cutaneous twigs of median nerve 9 . Palmar aponeurosis (reflected medially) 10 . Proper palmar digital nerve of median nerve 11 . Proper palmar digital nerves of ulnar nerve 12 . Ligament of digital sheath V 13 . Proper palmar digital nerves of median nerve 14 . Anterior common digital artery 15 . Flexor pollicis brevis muscle 16 . Muscular branch of median nerve (recurrent branch) 17 . Median artery (large) 18 . Transverse carpal ligament 19 . Palmaris brevis muscle 20 . Flexor digiti minimi muscle