Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus I: Muscular System: Alphabetical Listing of Muscles: A: Abductor Hallucis

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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus I: Muscular System: Alphabetical Listing of Muscles: A

Abductor Hallucis

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
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This muscle occasionally sends a slip to the base of the first phalanx of the second and third toe. It may be inserted into the long flexor tendon of the great toe. Its tendon of insertion is sometimes joined by a musclular slip arising from the skin on the medial border of the foot, somewhat in front of the ankle. Lepine (1864) found a slip passing to the skin of the ball of the great toe.

Syn.: m. adducteur hallucis (Cruveilhier).

References

Macalister, A. (1875) Addition observations on muscular anomalies in human anatomy (third series), with a catalogue of the principal muscular variations hitherto published. Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. Sci. 25:1-134.

Wood, J. (1866) Variations in human myology observed during the winter- session 1865-67 at King's College London. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 15:229-244.

Wood, J. (1867) On human muscular variations in their relation to comparative anatomy. J. Anat. Physiol. 1:44-59.

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