Sections of forearm and hand
Transverse section of right wrist
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Sections of forearm and hand
Transverse section of right wrist
- Palmaris longus muscle (insertion into partial aponeurosis)
- Transverse carpal ligament
- Deep anterior branch ulnar artery
- Palmaris brevis muscle
- Hamulus of hamate bone
- Pisometacarpal ligament
- Abductor digiti minimi muscle
- Metacarpal V
- Extensor carpi ulnaris muscle (tendon of insertion)
- Flexor digitorum profundus muscle (tendons in carpal canal invested by synovial sheath)
- Capitate bone
- Common extensor digitorum muscle (tendons)
- Flexor digitorum superficialis (tendons in carpal canal invested by synovial sheath)
- Left pointer: Median nerve Right pointer: Flexor pollicis longus muscle (tendon in carpal canal invested by synovial sheath)
- Opponens pollicis muscle
- Abductor pollicis brevis muscle
- Metacarpal I
- Extensor pollicis brevis muscle (tendon)
- Trapezium bone
- Extensor pollicis longus muscle (tendon)
- Flexor carpi radialis muscle (tendon of insertion)
- Extensor carpi radialis longus muscle (tendon of insertion)
- Trapezoid bone
- Metacarpal II
- Extensor carpi radialis brevis muscle (tendon of insertion)
- Metacarpal III