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CHAPTER EX. 
Plate XVI. — the tendons or the toes. 
Fig. 1. a, the tendon of the long flexor of the toes , which divides 
about the middle of the foot into four portions, passing through the 
slits in, 6, the short flexor tendons. Fig. 2. explains a similar con¬ 
trivance belonging to each finger: a, a tendon of the flexor sublimis ; 
6, a tendon of the flexor profundus, passing through it. 
Fig. 3. a, 6, tendons of the extensor muscles of the toes; c.a 
tendon of a flexor of the foot. These are bound down and retain¬ 
ed in situ by, e, the annular ligament of the instep, which consists 
of two distinct cross bands, going from the outer ankle to the inner 
ankle and neighbouring bones. 
