Tags: Anatomical Structure, Muscle.

The flexor pollicis longus (FPL Latin flexor bender; pollicis of the thumb; longus long) is a muscle in the forearm and hand that flexes the thumb. It lies in the same plane as the flexor digitorum profundus.This muscle is unique to humans being either rudimentary or absent in other primates.

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Dorlands prefix
m_22
Dorlands suffix
12549138
Gray page
449
Gray subject
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nerve
Anterior interosseous nerve

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