A muscle in the manus that functions to adduct the thumb. It has two heads: transverse and oblique. It is a fleshy, flat, triangular, and fan-shaped muscle deep in the thenar compartment beneath the long flexor tendons and the lumbrical muscles at the center of the palm. It overlies the metacarpal bones and the interosseous muscles[WP]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adductor_pollicis_muscle ]
Term information
A muscle in the manus that functions to adduct the thumb. It has two heads: transverse and oblique. It is a fleshy, flat, triangular, and fan-shaped muscle deep in the thenar compartment beneath the long flexor tendons and the lumbrical muscles at the center of the palm. It overlies the metacarpal bones and the interosseous muscles[WP].
Term relations
- adductor muscle
- muscle of manus
- connected anatomical structure
- part of some manus
- has muscle insertion some ulnar sesamoid bone
- has muscle antagonist some abductor pollicis brevis muscle
- has muscle insertion some proximal epiphysis of proximal phalanx of manual digit 1
- has muscle antagonist some abductor pollicis longus