Lumbricales
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Lumbricales can refer to:
- Lumbricals of the handLumbricals of the handThe lumbricals are intrinsic muscles of the hand that flex the metacarpophalangeal joints and extend the interphalangeal joints.-Structure:There are four of these small, worm-like muscles on each hand. These muscles are unusual in that they do not attach to bone...
- Lumbrical muscle (foot)Lumbrical muscle (foot)The lumbricals are four small skeletal muscles, accessory to the tendons of the flexor digitorum longus and numbered from the medial side of the foot; they arise from these tendons, as far back as their angles of division, each springing from two tendons, except the first.The muscles end in...