SUPERFICIAL FLEXORS OF FOREARM-FLEXOR CARPI RADIALIS

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SUMMARY

1. O: medial epicondyle of humerus (common flexor origin). 2. I: its tendon grooves the trapezium and is inserted 2nd & 3rd MC base (in symmetric opossition to ECRL and ECRB).
3. NS: median n.
4. A: Flexes, abducts & stabilises the wrist (whilst moving the fingers & thumb).

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Image: Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the Human Body. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1918; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/107/ [Accessed 20 Apr. 2019].


Reference(s)

R.M.H McMinn (1998). Last’s anatomy: regional and applied. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Gray, H., Carter, H.V. and Davidson, G. (2017). Gray’s anatomy. London: Arcturus.