Interosseous muscles and plantar arch, close-up plantar view
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Image #202-3
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
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Common digital artery
2
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Groove for flexor tendons of third toe
3
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Adductor hallucis muscle (cut off at insertion)
4
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1st and 2nd dorsal interosseous muscles (3rd and 4th dorsal interossei not labeled)
5
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Metatarsal plantar arteries
6
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Metatarsal bone
7
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Plantar venous arch
8
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Plantar arch
9
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1st tarsometatarsal articular capsule
10
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Area of origin of adductor hallucis muscle (oblique head)
11
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4th lumbrical muscle
12
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Abductor digiti minimi muscle
13
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Plantar interosseous muscles
14
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Opponens digiti minimi muscle (nearly inseparable from flexor digiti minimi brevis)
15
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Flexor digiti minimi brevis muscle
16
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Plantar metatarsal artery
17
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Branch of lateral plantar nerve to flexor digiti minimi brevis