Opponens digiti minimi muscle

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Opponens digiti minimi muscle
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Deep muscles of the right hand, palmar view.
Details
Latin musculus opponens digiti minimi
(Old: Opponens quinti digiti)
Origin Hook of hamate and flexor retinaculum
Insertion Medial border of 5th metacarpal
ulnar artery
deep branch of ulnar nerve (C8 and T1)
Actions Draws 5th metacarpal anteriorly and rotates it, bringing little finger (5th digit) into opposition with thumb
Identifiers
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Anatomical terms of muscle
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The opponens digiti minimi (opponens digiti quinti in older texts) is a muscle in the hand. It is of a triangular form, and placed immediately beneath the palmaris brevis, abductor minimi digiti, and flexor brevis minimi digiti. It is one of the three hypothenar muscles that controls the little finger.

It arises from the convexity of the hamulus of the hamate bone, and contiguous portion of the transverse carpal ligament; it is inserted into the whole length of the metacarpal bone of the little finger, along its ulnar margin.

Opponens minimi digiti serves to flex and laterally rotate the 5th metacarpal about the 5th carpometacarpal joint, as when bringing little finger and thumb into opposition. It is innervated by the deep branch of the ulnar nerve.

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References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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