Common digital extensor muscle
Musculus extensor digitorum communis
Extensor of the four ulnar digits.
About the common digital extensor muscle of the cat
Common digital extensor muscle is a muscle of the front leg (thoracic limb), one on each side of the body. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Musculus extensor digitorum communis. You can turn it above, see it in place in the front leg of the cat, 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 distal surface of the lateral supracondyloid ridge …
- Insertion
- Extensor processes of the distal phalanges of the second to the fifth digit.
- Action
- Extensor of the four ulnar digits.
- Nerve
- Radial nerve.
Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the cat; the books it was checked against are listed below.
Terminology
- English
- Common digital extensor muscle
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus extensor digitorum communis
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
The common digital extensor muscle in other animals
The same structure in the other animals in the Library, to compare.
Questions about the common digital extensor muscle
- What is the Latin name of the common digital extensor muscle?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the common digital extensor muscle is called Musculus extensor digitorum communis.
- Where is the common digital extensor muscle of the cat?
- Common digital extensor muscle is a muscle of the front leg (thoracic limb), one on each side of the body.
- Where does the common digital extensor muscle originate and insert?
- Origin: The distal surface of the lateral supracondyloid ridge … Insertion: Extensor processes of the distal phalanges of the second to the fifth digit.
- What nerve supplies the common digital extensor muscle?
- Radial nerve.
- What does the common digital extensor muscle do?
- Extensor of the four ulnar digits.
See the common digital extensor muscle inside the whole cat.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the cat 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.
