Dissection of plantar aspect of left foot

Interosseous muscles and plantar arch, close-up plantar view

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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