thenar muscle

Definition

Any of the muscles of the thenar eminence, a raised fleshy area on the palm of the hand near the base of the thumb.

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/).

Sub-structures

• abductor pollicis brevis
• flexor pollicis brevis
• opponens pollicis

Neighbouring structures

• hypothenar muscle

Identifiers

FMA

64916

UBERON

0014376

Wikidata

Q66561284