plantar interosseous of foot

Definition

Any of three muscles with origin from the third, fourth, and fifth metatarsal bones, with insertion to the proximal phalanx of the same toes, with nerve supply from the lateral plantar nerve, and whose action adducts the three lateral toes.

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

third metatarsal bone, fourth metatarsal bone, fifth metatarsal bone

Insertion

proximal phalanx of foot

Action

abduction of the toes

Innervation

lateral plantar nerve

Arterial supply

plantar arch

Sub-structures

• left plantar interossei muscles
• first plantar interosseous of foot
• second plantar interosseous of foot
• third plantar interosseous of foot

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Identifiers

TA2

2687

TA98

A04.7.02.071

FMA

37458

UBERON

0006502

Wikidata

Q2360339