However, some people only have 19 muscles there, missing one that might disappear from humans forever as we evolve: the palmaris longus tendon. Reportedly 14 percent of the human population is ...

About 85% of people have what is called a palmaris longus, a vestigial muscle running from the elbow to the heel of the hand. In some primates, this muscle assists climbing, while in cats and ...

Here’s a list of some of the less obvious ones. The palmaris longus muscle is a muscle that runs from the wrist to the elbow. If you rest the back of your wrist on a table and link your thumb to ...

Techniques for restoring thumb opposition require multiple incisions and frequently use nonagonist muscles ... nerve palsy by transferring the palmaris longus end-to-end to the extensor pollicis ...

THE deep lumbrical muscles of the cat's hind foot are very small ones situated between the tendons of the flexor digitorum longus muscle. The first of these is supplied by only 4–10 α motor ...