adductor pollicis

adductor pollicis
adductor pol·li·cis -'päl-ə-səs, -ə-kəs n a muscle of the hand with two heads that adducts the thumb by bringing it toward the palm called also adductor pollicis muscle

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  • Adductor pollicis — Musculus adductor pollicis Ursprung Caput obliquum: Os capitatum und Os metacarpale II und III Caput transversum: palmar am Os metacarpale II und III …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Adductor pollicis muscle — Muscle infobox Name = Adductor pollicis muscle Latin = musculus adductor pollicis GraySubject = 126 GrayPage = 462 Caption = The muscles of the thumb. (Adductor pollicis transversus is red band at bottom, and adductor pollicis obliquus is red… …   Wikipedia

  • adductor pollicis muscle — musculus adductor pollicis …   Medical dictionary

  • M. adductor pollicis — Musculus adductor pollicis Ursprung Caput obliquum: Os capitatum und Os metacarpale II und III Caput transversum: palmar am Os metacarpale II und III …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Musculus adductor pollicis — Ursprung Caput obliquum: Os capitatum und Os metacarpale II und III Caput transversum: palmar am Os metacarpale II und III …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • pollicis — see ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS, ABDUCTOR POLLICIS LONGUS, ADDUCTOR POLLICIS, EXTENSOR POLLICIS BREVIS …   Medical dictionary

  • oblique head of adductor pollicis muscle — caput obliquum musculi adductoris pollicis …   Medical dictionary

  • transverse head of adductor pollicis muscle — caput transversum musculi adductoris pollicis …   Medical dictionary

  • musculus adductor pollicis — [TA] adductor muscle of thumb (2 heads): origin, CAPUT OBLIQUUM—sheath of flexor carpi radialis, palmar ligaments of carpus, capitate bone, and bases of second and third metacarpals, CAPUT TRANSVERSUM—lower two thirds of anterior surface of… …   Medical dictionary

  • adductor muscle — ▪ anatomy       any of the muscles that draw a part of the body toward its median line or toward the axis of an extremity (compare abductor muscle), particularly three powerful muscles of the human thigh adductor longus, adductor brevis, and… …   Universalium

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