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  2. Myotome - Wikipedia

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    A myotome is the group of muscles that a single spinal nerve innervates. [1] Similarly a dermatome is an area of skin that a single nerve innervates with sensory fibers. Myotomes are separated by myosepta (singular: myoseptum). [2] In vertebrate embryonic development, a myotome is the part of a somite that develops into muscle.

  3. Tibialis anterior muscle - Wikipedia

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    The movements of tibialis anterior are dorsiflexion and inversion of the ankle. However, actions of tibialis anterior are dependent on whether the foot is weight bearing or not (closed or open kinetic chain). When the foot is on the ground, the muscle helps to balance the leg and talus on the other tarsal bones so that the leg is kept vertical ...

  4. Ankle jerk reflex - Wikipedia

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    The ankle jerk reflex, also known as the Achilles reflex, occurs when the Achilles tendon is tapped while the foot is dorsiflexed.It is a type of stretch reflex that tests the function of the gastrocnemius muscle and the nerve that supplies it.

  5. File:A manual of physiology, with practical exercises (IA ...

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    Original file (775 × 1,204 pixels, file size: 172.51 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 1,286 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  6. Extensor hallucis longus muscle - Wikipedia

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    Occasionally united at its origin with the extensor digitorum longus.. The extensor ossis metatarsi hallucis, a small muscle, sometimes found as a slip from the extensor hallucis longus, or from the tibialis anterior, or from the extensor digitorum longus, or as a distinct muscle; it traverses the same compartment of the transverse ligament with the extensor hallucis longus.

  7. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    failure of abrupt passive flexion of the hip and/or knee to elicit dorsiflexion and adduction of foot Ten Horn's sign: Carel Hendrik Leo Herman ten Horn: surgery: appendicitis: pain in the right iliac fossa after traction of spermatic cord Terry's nails: R. Terry: internal medicine: various including hepatic failure: white 'ground glass' nails ...

  8. Extensor digitorum longus muscle - Wikipedia

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    It arises from the lateral condyle of the tibia; from the upper three-quarters of the anterior surface of the body of the fibula; from the upper part of the interosseous membrane; from the deep surface of the fascia; and from the intermuscular septa between it and the tibialis anterior on the medial, and the peroneal muscles on the lateral side.

  9. Fibularis longus - Wikipedia

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    In human anatomy, the fibularis longus (also known as peroneus longus) is a superficial muscle in the lateral compartment of the leg.It acts to tilt the sole of the foot away from the midline of the body and to extend the foot downward away from the body (plantar flexion) at the ankle.