Anatomy study note · Lower limb

Extensor digitorum brevis

The only intrinsic muscle on the dorsum of the foot. Its tendon to the big toe is sometimes called extensor hallucis brevis.

Key points

• Calcaneum → toes 1–4.
• Deep fibular nerve (lateral branch).
• Only dorsal intrinsic foot muscle.
• Limb muscles: in situ from limb-bud mesenchyme.
• Upper limb bud C4–T2; lower limb bud L2–S2.
• Skeletal muscle: multinucleated, peripheral nuclei, striated.
• Epimysium → perimysium → endomysium.

The full note in the atlas also covers

Origin · Insertion · Action · Nerve supply · Histology · Development

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 11, PDF pp. 1385, 1387
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 7, PDF p. 109; ch. 10, PDF pp. 142–145
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 8, PDF pp. 135–144

More from the lower limb

• Extensor digitorum longus
• Extensor hallucis longus
• Femoral artery
• Femoral nerve
• Femoral vein
• Femur
• Fibula
• Fibularis brevis
• Fibularis longus
• Fibularis tertius
• Flexor digitorum longus
• Flexor hallucis longus

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