Dog · Muscle · Pelvic limb
Long digital extensor
Musculus extensor digitorum longus
- System
- Muscle
- Region
- Pelvic limb
- Sides
- Paired: left and right
What it works on
Deep to tibialis cranialis; tendon under the crural and tarsal extensor retinacula.
Bones it takes hold of
Muscles and ligaments it works with
- Cranial tibial muscle
- Long fibular muscle
- Extensor digiti 1 longus
- Extensor digitorum brevis
- Long digital extensor tendon of origin
- Long digital extensor tendons
- Crural extensor retinaculum
- Tarsal extensor retinaculum
Terminology
- English
- Long digital extensor
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus extensor digitorum longus
- 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
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- TibiaMeets it
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- CalcaneusSame region
- Caudal crural abductorSame region
- Central tarsal boneSame region
- Cranial tibial muscleSame region
- FibulaSame region
- Gluteus mediusSame region
- Gluteus superficialisSame region
- Long fibular muscleSame region
- PatellaSame region