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Anatomy Course Branch of the inferior alveolar vein which travels with the mental nerve and mental artery through the mental foramen of the mandible. Drain Responsible for the drainage of the lower teeth and jaw. Interested in taking our award-winning Pocket Anatomy app for a test drive?
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Anatomy Origin: Mandible inferior to the incisor teeth. Insertion: Skin of the chin. Key Relations: Deepest muscle along the mandible. Functions Raises and protrudes the lower lip as it wrinkles the skin of chin. e.g. when pouting or drinking from a glass.. Supply Nerve Supply: Mandibular branch of the facial nerve (CN 7). Blood Supply:
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Anatomy At near end is 1st (thumb) carpometacarpal joint (with trapezium), a saddle joint, allowing biggest range of finger movement, including opposition. At far end is 1st metacarpophalangeal joint (MCP). Interested in taking our award-winning Pocket Anatomy app for a test drive?
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Anatomy Longest metacarpal. Articulates; up (proximally) with (out to in, ie laterally to medially) trapezium, trapezoid, capitate: in (just below base) with 3rd metacarpal: down (distally) with 2nd proximal phalanx. Clinical 2nd metacarpal susceptible to injury from direct trauma, such as a hockey stick slash, or cricket ball on batsman’s hand. Interested in taking our
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Anatomy Articulates up with capitate, out with index metacarpal, in with ring metacarpal (1st thumb, 2nd index, 3rd middle, 4th ring, 5th little), down with proximal phalanx (3rd MCP). Clinical MCP is a knuckle (4 each hand, as thumb MCP not ordinarily included). Common sites for fractures and other fist injuries. Interested in taking our
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Supply Motor supply to the quadriceps femoris as well as many other muscles in the thigh. Cutaneous supply of the anterior and lateral thigh. Anatomy There are two anterior cutaneous branches of the femoral nerve: Intermediate femoral cutaneous nerve and Medial femoral cutaneous nerve. Course The femoral nerve is the largest branch of the lumbar
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Anatomy Course Begins at the neck of the femur and medially travels above the margin of the adductor magnus. It passes between the obturator externus and adductor brevis muscles, and then between the iliopsoas and pectineus muscle. It drains into the deep femoral vein. Drain Drains the head and neck of the femur. Interested in
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Anatomy Course A branch of the common tibular nerve. It runs down the posteromedial aspect of the calf. Clinical Damage to the nerve will result in a loss of sensation in the skin on the anterior and posterior portions of the medial calf. Supply Provides sensory innervation to the skin on some of the anterior
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Anatomy Tarsal bone, wedge-shaped, largest of the cuneiforms, articulates forward with 1st (big toe) and 2nd metatarsals, laterally/out with middle/intermediate cuneiform, proximally with navicular. Vignette Hindfoot; talus, calcaneus. Midfoot; cuboid, navicular, cuneiforms (medial, intermediate, lateral). Forefoot; metatarsals, phalanges. Interested in taking our award-winning Pocket Anatomy app for a test drive?
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Anatomy Attaches from the inferior medial margins of the patella to the inferior margin of the medial tibial condyle. It also blends with the patella ligament. Functions Provides static stability to the patella. Interested in taking our award-winning Pocket Anatomy app for a test drive?
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