Dog · Muscle · Pelvic limb
Long fibular muscle
Musculus fibularis longus
Flexes the hock and rotates the foot inward.
- 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
- Lateral condyle of the tibia, the head of the fibula and the lateral collateral ligament of the stifle.
- Insertion
- Fourth tarsal bone and the proximal ends of the metatarsal bones, winding across the plantar surface of the tarsus.
- Action
- Flexes the hock and rotates the foot inward.
- Nerve
- Superficial 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
Lateral leg, caudal to long digital extensor.
Bones it takes hold of
Muscles and ligaments it works with
- Long digital extensor
- Cranial tibial muscle
- Extensor digitorum lateralis pes
- Fibularis brevis
- Flexor digitorum lateralis
- Lateral collateral ligament of stifle
Terminology
- English
- Long fibular muscle
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus fibularis 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
- Miller 2020 (book pass)ch. 6 The Muscular System, PDF p. 629
Read next
- TibiaMeets it
- FibulaMeets it
- Biceps muscle of the thighSame region
- CalcaneusSame region
- Caudal crural abductorSame region
- Central tarsal boneSame region
- Cranial tibial muscleSame region
- FemurSame region
- Gluteus mediusSame region
- Gluteus superficialisSame region
- Long digital extensorSame region
- PatellaSame region