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Flexor muscles of the forearm

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  • Which muscle is this?
    supinator
  • This muscles actions include tensing the palmar fascia, flexing the wrist and it may assist to flex the elbow.
    palmaris longus
  • These flexor muscles pronate the forearm.
    pronator teres and pronator quadratus
  • Which muscle is innervated by the ulnar nerve?
    Flexor carpi ulnaris
  • This muscles actions include flexion of the wrist, abduction of the wrist and assisting in flexion of the elbow. It inserts on the bases of the 2nd and 3rd metacarpals.
    flexor carpi radialis
  • The flexor carpi ulnaris inserts on the hook of the hamate and this other carpal bone.
    pisiform
  • Which muscles nickname is the "wrist band"?
    pronator quadratus
  • What is the nerve innervation of the supinator muscle?
    radial
  • Name this flexor muscle.
    flexor pollicis longus
  • True or false: Most of the flexor muscles are innervated by the radial nerve.
    False
  • The flexor pollicis longus and brevis flex the ________.
    thumb