Anatom3DOpponens digiti minimi of foot
Musculus opponens digiti minimi pedis · Opozitor malíku nohy
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Looks like
An inconstant thin slip of the short little-toe flexor that ends on the fifth foot bone.
What it does
Can slightly draw the fifth foot bone down and inward; weak and often absent.
Keeping it well
No known clinical importance.
Related conditions
- Botulism
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Fibromyalgia
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Hammer toe and claw toe
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Morton's neuroma
- Muscular dystrophy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite