Arm and Forearm Flashcards
Name the arm flexor muscles. How many?
Three muscles (BBC)
- Biceps brachii (long and short head)
- Brachialis
- Coracobrachialis
Name the only arm extensor (posterior) muscle? What innervates it?
Triceps brachii (long, lateral, and medial)
Radial nerve (in radial groove) innervates it
Name the superficial flexor muscles of the forearm? How many?
What is their origin?
FOUR (P/F, P/F)
- Pronater Teres
- Flexor Carpi Radialis
- Palmaris Longus
- Flexor Carpi Ulnaris
Origin: Common flexor tendon at the medial epicondyle
Which muscle is absent in about 25% of people and used in autografts? What type of muscle is it?
Palmaris Longus - Superficial Forearm Flexor muscle
Name the only middle forearm flexor musle?
Name its OINA
Flexor digitorum superficialis (TRICKY, superficialis is middle here)
O: common flexor tendon and radius at extensive origin (medial epicondyle)
Ins: middle phalanges at digits 2-5
Inn: Median nerve
A: Flexes hand and joints at digits 2-5
Latin Roots
- Pollicis
- Carpi
- Digitorum
Pollicis = Thumb (thumbs up for politics)
Carpi = Wrist (Carpe Diem is risky)
Digitorum = Digit
Name the deep forearm flexor muscles
THREE
- Flexor pollicis longus
- Flexor digitorum profundas
- Pronater quadratus
Name the superficial forearm extensor muscles
What are the common origin, innervation, and action
SIX
Origin: Common exterior tendon at lateral epicondyle
Inn: Radial nerve
Action: Mostly extends wrist and digits
- Brachioradialis (Exception = NOT extensor, flexes forearm)
- Extensor Carpi radius longus
- Extensor Carpi radius brevis
- Extensor digitorum
- Extensor carpi ulnaris
- Extensor digiti minimi