HUMB2008 Study Guide - Final Guide: Flexor Digitorum Profundus Muscle, Articular Disk, Extensor Carpi Muscle

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The wrist consists of distal radius and ulna and 8 carpal bones. Carpal bones are arranged in proximal and distal rows. Proximal row = scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform. Distal row = trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate. The numerous muscles of the forearm become tendinous just before the wrist joint. Tendons in the wrist can be divided into palmar and dorsal tendon groups. Collectively extend the fingers and the wrist. For the long flexor tendons (flexor digitorum profundus, flexor pollicus longus) Contains the tendons of the long flexors + median nerve. Created by concave arrangement of carpal bones. Roof = flexor retinaculum with 4 points of attachment. Formed by the pisiform and hamate with the pisohamate ligament. Formed where the ulnar extension of the flexor retinaculum continues over the pisiform and the hamate. Fibrous tissue that originates on the medial surface of the distal radius. Traverses horizontally to insert on the base of the ulnar styloid process.

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