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The thenar eminence is the mound formed at the base of the thumb on the palm of the hand by the intrinsic group of muscles of the thumb. [1] The skin overlying this region is the area stimulated when trying to elicit a palmomental reflex. The word thenar comes from Ancient Greek θέναρ (thenar) 'palm of the hand'. [2]
Passing through the first tendon compartment, it inserts to the base of the first metacarpal bone. A part of the tendon reaches the trapezium, while another fuses with the tendons of the extensor pollicis brevis and the abductor pollicis brevis. Except for abducting the hand, it flexes the hand towards the palm and abducts it radially.
The muscles of the hand are the skeletal muscles responsible for the movement of the hand and fingers. The muscles of the hand can be subdivided into two groups: the extrinsic and intrinsic muscle groups. The extrinsic muscle groups are the long flexors and extensors. They are called extrinsic because the muscle belly is located on the forearm ...
In human anatomy, the adductor pollicis muscle is a muscle in the hand that functions to adduct the thumb. It has two heads: transverse and oblique. It is a fleshy, flat, triangular, and fan-shaped muscle deep in the thenar compartment beneath the long flexor tendons and the lumbrical muscles at the center of the palm.
In the thenar eminence, the recurrent branch of the median nerve provides motor innervation to: [4] opponens pollicis muscle; abductor pollicis brevis muscle; superficial part of flexor pollicis brevis muscle; A separate, more proximal branch of the median nerve additionally provides motor innervation to the 1st and 2nd lumbricals of the hand.
Upper limb, Hand, Lateral volar, Thenar flexor retinaculum of hand, scaphoid and trapezium: radial base of proximal phalanx of thumb and thumb extensors: superficial palmar arch: median nerve: abducts thumb: adductor pollicis: 2 1 adductor pollicis: Upper limb, Hand, Lateral volar, Thenar transverse head: anterior body of third metacarpal
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Superficial palmar branch of radial artery and recurrent branch of median nerve to thenar muscles. Proper palmar digital nerves of thumb. Fascia over adductor pollicis muscle. Thenar space (deep to flexor tendons and 1st lumbrical muscle). 1st dorsal interosseous muscle. Probe in dorsal extension of thenar space deep to adductor pollicis muscle.