The flexor digiti minimi brevis is one of three muscles in the hypothenar muscle group.
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The plantar surface of the base is grooved for the tendon of the flexor digiti minimi brevis.
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From anatomical position medial to lateral is the abductor digiti minimi, flexor digiti minimi brevis, and opponens digiti minimi.
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The flexor digiti minimi brevis, like other hypothenar muscles, is innervated by the deep branch of the ulnar nerve.
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The flexor digiti minimi brevis is sometimes not present; in these cases, the abductor digiti minimi is usually larger than normal.
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The ulnar nerve has a superficial and deep branch, but it is the deep branch that innervates the flexor digiti minimi brevis.
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The flexor digiti minimi brevis arises from the hamulus of the hamate bone and the palmar surface of the flexor retinaculum of the hand.
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In the third layer, the oblique head of flexor digiti minimi brevis on the lateral side can be mistaken for one of the interossei.
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The "'flexor digiti minimi brevis "'is a hypothenar muscle in the hand that flexes the little finger ( digit V ) at the metacarpophalangeal joint.
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They also provide motor innervation to quadratus plantae, abductor digiti minimi, flexor digiti minimi brevis, lateral three lumbricals, adductor hallucis, and the dorsal and plantar interossei.
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