Dog · Muscle · Pelvic limb
Cranial tibial muscle
Musculus tibialis cranialis
Flexes the tarsus and turns the paw so the sole faces medially.
- System
- Muscle
- Region
- Pelvic limb
- Sides
- Paired: left and right
Where it runs from and to
A muscle is told apart from its neighbours by what it takes hold of at each end, which is also what decides what it does when it shortens.
- Origin
- Cranial border and lateral condyle of the proximal tibia.
- Insertion
- Plantaromedial bases of the first and second metatarsal bones.
- Action
- Flexes the tarsus and turns the paw so the sole faces medially.
- Nerve
- Deep fibular nerve, from the common fibular nerve.
Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the dog; the books it was checked against are listed below.
What it works on
Most cranial superficial muscle of the leg.
Bones it takes hold of
- Tibia
- First metatarsal bone
- Metatarsal bones
Muscles and ligaments it works with
- Long digital extensor
- Long fibular muscle
- Extensor digiti 1 longus
- Crural extensor retinaculum
Terminology
- English
- Cranial tibial muscle
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus tibialis cranialis
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
References
Where to read this structure in full, and where the named parts above were read.
- NAV 2017Myologia: musculi membri pelvini
- Miller's Anatomy of the Dog, 5th ed.The Muscular System: muscles of the pelvic limb
- König & LiebichMuscles of the pelvic limb
- Dyce, Sack & WensingThe hindlimb of the carnivores
- Miller 2020 (book pass)ch. 6 The Muscular System, PDF p. 625
Read next
- TibiaMeets it
- Biceps muscle of the thighSame region
- CalcaneusSame region
- Caudal crural abductorSame region
- Central tarsal boneSame region
- FemurSame region
- FibulaSame region
- Gluteus mediusSame region
- Gluteus superficialisSame region
- Long digital extensorSame region
- Long fibular muscleSame region
- PatellaSame region