Medial digital flexor muscle
Musculus flexor digitorum medialis
Flexes the digit and helps extend the tarsus.
About the medial digital flexor muscle of the horse
Medial digital flexor muscle is a muscle of the back leg (pelvic limb), one on each side of the body. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Musculus flexor digitorum medialis. You can turn it above, see it in place in the back leg of the horse, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.
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
- The back of the tibia's lateral condyle.
- Insertion
- Its tendon crosses the inner face of the hock and joins the deep digital flexor tendon below the tarsus.
- Action
- Flexes the digit and helps extend the tarsus.
- Nerve
- Tibial nerve.
Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the horse; the books it was checked against are listed below.
Terminology
- English
- Medial digital flexor muscle
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus flexor digitorum medialis
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the medial digital flexor muscle
- What is the Latin name of the medial digital flexor muscle?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the medial digital flexor muscle is called Musculus flexor digitorum medialis.
- Where is the medial digital flexor muscle of the horse?
- Medial digital flexor muscle is a muscle of the back leg (pelvic limb), one on each side of the body.
- Where does the medial digital flexor muscle originate and insert?
- Origin: The back of the tibia's lateral condyle. Insertion: Its tendon crosses the inner face of the hock and joins the deep digital flexor tendon below the tarsus.
- What nerve supplies the medial digital flexor muscle?
- Tibial nerve.
- What does the medial digital flexor muscle do?
- Flexes the digit and helps extend the tarsus.
See the medial digital flexor muscle inside the whole horse.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the horse around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.
Free for 7 days, no card. After that the skeletons stay free.
