Flexor tubercle - vet-Anatomy - IMAIOS

The flexor tubercle in carnivores is a rounded, broad, low tubercle on the palmar side of distal phalanx that serves of the insertion of tendon the flexor digitorum profundus

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Text by Antoine Micheau, MD - Copyright IMAIOS

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Veterinary anatomy

Osteology >
Appendicular skeleton >
Bones of the pelvic limb >
Skeleton of the pes >
Digital bones of pes >
Distal phalanx [Unguicular bone, Ungual bone] >
Articular surface >
Sole surface >
Flexor tubercle

Underlying structures: There are no anatomical children for this anatomical part

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