Extensor pollicis brevis muscle
- Extensor pollicis brevis muscle
Muscle infobox
Name = Extensor pollicis brevis muscle
Latin = musculus extensor pollicis brevis
GraySubject = 125
GrayPage = 455
Caption = Front of right upper extremity. (Extensor pollicis brevis labeled at upper left.)
Caption2 = Posterior surface of the forearm. Deep muscles. (Extensor pollicis brevis visible at left.)
Origin = radius
Insertion = thumb, proximal phalanx
Action = extension of thumb at metacarpophalangeal joint
Antagonist = Flexor pollicis longus muscle, Flexor pollicis brevis muscle
Blood = posterior interosseous artery
Nerve = posterior interosseous nerve
DorlandsPre = m_22
DorlandsSuf = 12548946
The Extensor pollicis brevis lies on the medial side of, and is closely connected with, the Abductor pollicis longus.
Origin and insertion
It arises from the dorsal surface of the body of the radius below that muscle, and from the interosseous membrane.
Its direction is similar to that of the Abductor pollicis longus, its tendon passing the same groove on the lateral side of the lower end of the radius, to be inserted into the base of the first phalanx of the thumb.
Action
The Extensor pollicis brevis extends the proximal phalanx.
Variations
Absence; fusion of tendon with that of the Extensor pollicis longus.
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