Tags: Anatomical Structure, Muscle.

In human anatomy the extensor pollicis longus (EPL) is a skeletal muscle located dorsally on the forearm. It is much larger than the extensor pollicis brevis the origin of which it partly covers and acts to stretch the thumb together with this muscle.

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Dorlands prefix
m_22
Dorlands suffix
12548955
Gray page
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Gray subject
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nerve
Posterior interosseous nerve

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