Psoas minor
Musculus psoas minor
Flexes the pelvis on the spine.
About the psoas minor of the pig
Psoas minor is a muscle of the hips and pelvis (pelvis), one on each side of the body. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Musculus psoas minor. You can turn it above, see it in place in the hips and pelvis of the pig, 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
- Bodies of the last thoracic and the cranial lumbar vertebrae.
- Insertion
- Psoas tubercle on the shaft of the ilium.
- Action
- Flexes the pelvis on the spine.
- Nerve
- Ventral branches of the lumbar nerves.
Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the pig; the books it was checked against are listed below.
Terminology
- English
- Psoas minor
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus psoas minor
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the psoas minor
- What is the Latin name of the psoas minor?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the psoas minor is called Musculus psoas minor.
- Where is the psoas minor of the pig?
- Psoas minor is a muscle of the hips and pelvis (pelvis), one on each side of the body.
- Where does the psoas minor originate and insert?
- Origin: Bodies of the last thoracic and the cranial lumbar vertebrae. Insertion: Psoas tubercle on the shaft of the ilium.
- What nerve supplies the psoas minor?
- Ventral branches of the lumbar nerves.
- What does the psoas minor do?
- Flexes the pelvis on the spine.
See the psoas minor inside the whole pig.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the pig 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.
