DISSECTION OF THE FOOT. 



extent 



relations 



with 



muscles, 



of the little toe to the upper end of the first interosseous space : 

 internally the arch is completed by a communicating branch from 

 the dorsal artery of the foot (p. 182). It is placed across the 

 tarsal ends of the metatarsal bones, in contact with the interossei, I 

 but under the flexor tendons and the adductor obliquus hallucis. 



FIG. 78. THIRD VIEW OF THE SOLE OF THE FOOT (ILLUSTRATIONS 

 OF DISSECTIONS). 



Muscles : 



A. Flexor brevis hallucis. 



B. Adductor obliquus hallucis. 

 c. Flexor brevis minimi digiti. 



D. Adductor transversus hallucis. 



Arteries: 



a. Internal plantar, cut. 



b. External plantar. 



c. Its four digital branches. 

 Nerves : 



1. Internal plantar, cut. 



2. External plantar. 



3. Its superficial part, cut. 



4. The deep part, with the plantar 

 arch. 



5. Offsets to the outer lumbrical 

 muscles. 



veins and 

 nerve : 



Venae comites lie on the sides of the artery, and the deep part of 

 the external plantar nerve accompanies it. 

 branches: From the front or convexity of the arch the digital branches are 

 supplied, and from the opposite side small nutritive branches arise. 

 Three small arteries, the posterior perforating, leave the deep 



