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How to Learn Anatomy

How to Learn Anatomy: Nerves

...predict the function of the nerve. Examples: The median nerve carries motor and sensory fibres to the forearm and hand. The femoral nerve carries motor fibres to the anterior thigh...

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Adductor Pollicis

The adductor pollicis is an intrinsic muscle of the hand. It is a triangular shape with two heads. The radial artery passes anteriorly through the space between the two heads...

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Opponens Digiti Minimi

The opponens digiti minimi is a hypothenar muscle located within the hand. It lies deep to the other hypothenar muscles. Attachments: Originates from the hook of hamate and associated flexor...

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Abductor Pollicis Brevis

The abductor pollicis brevis is a thenar muscle located within the hand. It forms the anterolateral aspect of the thenar eminence, overlying the opponens pollicis. Attachments: Originates from the tubercles...

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Opponens Pollicis

The opponens pollicis is a thenar muscle located within the hand. It is the largest of the thenar muscles, and is located underneath the flexor pollcis brevis and abductor pollicis...

The Upper Limb

The Upper Limb

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Flexor Pollicis Brevis

The flexor pollicis brevis is a thenar muscle located within the hand. It forms the medial aspect of the thenar eminence and is described as having a superficial and deep...

Bones of the Upper Limb

The Clavicle

...a fall onto the shoulder or onto an outstretched hand. With the clavicle arbitrarily divided into thirds: 15% of fractures occur in the lateral third 80% occur in the middle...

The Ear

The Eustachian (Auditory) Tube

...oedema from gastroesophageal reflux. Others are located outside the lumen, like hypertrophic adenoids and neoplasia of the nasopharynx. On the other hand, any pathology that affects either the tensor veli...

Pathways in the Central Nervous System

The Descending Tracts

...innervation. Its exact function is unclear, but it is thought to play a role in the fine control of hand movements Tectospinal Tracts This pathway begins at the superior colliculus...