Palmar view of hand flexor tendons and digital sheaths

About this plate

Palmar view of hand flexor tendons and digital sheaths. Anterior view of the limb.

Region

limb

Structure

hand

View

anterior

System

muscle, bone, joint

Focus

digital fibrous sheaths, flexor digitorum profundus and superficialis tendons, thenar muscles, lumbrical muscles

Structures labelled on this plate

• Tendon of flexor dig. prof
• Crucial fibres of lig. vaginal
• Vaginal lig
• Annular fibres of lig. vagin
• Inter- osseus dors I
• Tendon of flexor pollicis longus
• Lumbrical muscles
• Adductor pollicis
• Tendon of flexor dig. subl
• Abductor dig. V
• Flexor dig. brevis Opponens dig
• Opponens pollicis
• Flexor pollicis brevis
• Abductor pollicis brevis
• Transverse carpal ligament
• Pisiform bone
• Tendon of abductor pollicis longus
• Flexor digitorum sublimis
• Tendon of flexor carpi ulnaris
• Tendon of flexor carpi radialis

Source: After Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy (1906-1911). Public domain (Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy, 1906-1911), modernized rendering.