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  2. Abductor pollicis longus muscle - Wikipedia

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    An accessory abductor pollicis longus (AAPL) tendon is present in more than 80% of people, and a separate muscle belly is present in 20% of people. In one study, the accessory tendon was inserted into the trapezium (41%); proximally on the abductor pollicis brevis (22%) and opponens pollicis brevis (5%); had a double insertion on the trapezium and thenar muscles (15%); or the base of the first ...

  3. Muscles of the thumb - Wikipedia

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    The opponens pollicis lies deep to abductor pollicis brevis. As its name suggests, it opposes the thumb, bringing it against the fingers. This is a very important movement, as most of human hand dexterity including grip comes from this action. The abductor pollicis brevis originates on the scaphoid tubercle and the flexor retinaculum. It ...

  4. Extrinsic extensor muscles of the hand - Wikipedia

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    Moving distally, there are the abductor pollicis longus (APL), extensor pollicis brevis (EPB), extensor pollicis longus (EPL), and extensor indicis (EI). The APL originates from the lateral part of the dorsal surface of the body of the ulna below the insertion of the anconeus and from the middle third of the dorsal surface of the body of the ...

  5. Anatomical snuffbox - Wikipedia

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    The lateral border (radial side) is a pair of parallel and intimate tendons, of the extensor pollicis brevis and the abductor pollicis longus. [1] Accordingly, the anatomical snuffbox is most visible, having a more pronounced concavity, during thumb extension .)

  6. List of abductors of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Abductor digiti minimi; Dorsal interossei of the hand; of thumb [5] Abductor pollicis longus; Abductor pollicis brevis; Lower limb. of femur at hip [6] Gluteus ...

  7. Posterior compartment of the forearm - Wikipedia

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    The third compartment exclusively accommodates the extensor pollicis longus, which hooks around Lister's tubercle of radius and inserts to the thumb. The fourth compartment is the largest of all. It is occupied by the extensors of the digits, the extensor digitorum communis and the extensor indicis proprius.

  8. Thenar eminence - Wikipedia

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    Abductor pollicis brevis abducts the thumb. This muscle is the most superficial of the thenar group. Flexor pollicis brevis, which lies next to the abductor, will flex the thumb, curling it up in the palm. (The flexor pollicis longus, which is inserted into the distal phalanx of the thumb, is not considered part of the thenar eminence.)

  9. List of skeletal muscles of the human body - Wikipedia

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    abductor pollicis longus, abductor pollicis brevis: 2 1 palmaris brevis: Upper limb, Hand, Medial volar flexor retinaculum (medial), palmar aponeurosis: palm: palmar metacarpal artery: superficial branch of ulnar nerve: wrinkle skin of palm: 2 1 abductor digiti minimi (hand) Upper limb, Hand, Medial volar, hypothenar: pisiform