internal abdominal oblique muscle
Musculus obliquus internus abdominis
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Definition
The lateral abdominal wall muscle that is deep to the external oblique and superficial to the transversus.
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Relations
- Origin
- inguinal ligament, iliac crest, thoracolumbar fascia
- Action
- flexion of the torso, rotation of the torso, lateral flexion of the torso, raising intra-abdominal pressure, exhalation
- Innervation
- tenth intercostal nerve, eleventh intercostal nerve, subcostal nerve, sixth intercostal nerve, seventh intercostal nerve, eighth intercostal nerve, Anterior ramus of first lumbar nerve, iliohypogastric nerve, ilio-inguinal nerve
- Arterial supply
- subcostal artery
Sub-structures
Neighbouring structures
Practice questions
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 2373
- TA98
- A04.5.01.017
- FMA
- 13891
- UBERON
- 0005454
- Wikidata
- Q1334595
