Long digital extensor
Musculus extensor digitorum longus
Extensor of the phalanges.
About the long digital extensor of the cat
Long digital extensor 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 extensor digitorum longus. You can turn it above, see it in place in the back 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
- by a thin flat tendon from the lateral surface of the lateral epicondyle of the femur …
- Insertion
- The tendon thus formed on the dorsum of each phalanx by the junction of the two or three tendons above mentioned is firmly attached to the base of the second phalanx at its proximal end in the middle of its dorsal surface.
- Action
- Extensor of the phalanges.
- Nerve
- Fibular 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
- Long digital extensor
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus extensor digitorum longus
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
The long digital extensor in other animals
The same structure in the other animals in the Library, to compare.
Questions about the long digital extensor
- What is the Latin name of the long digital extensor?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the long digital extensor is called Musculus extensor digitorum longus.
- Where is the long digital extensor of the cat?
- Long digital extensor is a muscle of the back leg (pelvic limb), one on each side of the body.
- Where does the long digital extensor originate and insert?
- Origin: by a thin flat tendon from the lateral surface of the lateral epicondyle of the femur … Insertion: The tendon thus formed on the dorsum of each phalanx by the junction of the two or three tendons above mentioned is firmly attached to the base of the second phalanx at its proximal end in the middle of its dorsal surface.
- What nerve supplies the long digital extensor?
- Fibular nerve.
- What does the long digital extensor do?
- Extensor of the phalanges.
See the long digital extensor 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.
