Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See antebrachial, antebrachium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the antibrachium, or forearm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the
antibrachium , orforearm .
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Examples
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The muscles of this region, the antibrachial, are divided into two sub-regions, anterior and posterior.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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The forearm is flexed on the arm by the contraction of the coracoradialis (biceps brachii), while the metacarpus and phalanges are bent by the action of the posterior antibrachial muscles.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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The retraction of the flexor muscles and their tendons and the aponeurosis of the antibrachial region occurs in this disorder and prevents the animal from extending the knee.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Medially, its upper half is in relation with the medial antibrachial cutaneous and ulnar nerves, its lower half with the median nerve.
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It arises from the medial epicondyle of the humerus by the common tendon, from the intermuscular septa between it and the adjacent muscles, and from the antibrachial fascia.
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The humeral head, the larger and more superficial, arises immediately above the medial epicondyle, and from the tendon common to the origin of the other muscles; also from the intermuscular septum between it and the Flexor carpi radialis and from the antibrachial fascia.
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The Extensor digitorum communis arises from the lateral epicondyle of the humerus, by the common tendon; from the intermuscular septa between it and the adjacent muscles, and from the antibrachial fascia.
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The volar carpal ligament is the thickened band of antibrachial fascia which extends from the radius to the ulna over the Flexor tendons as they enter the wrist.
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The antibrachial fascia continuous above with the brachial fascia, is a dense, membranous investment, which forms a general sheath for the muscles in this region; it is attached, behind, to the olecranon and dorsal border of the ulna, and gives off from its deep surface numerous intermuscular septa, which enclose each muscle separately.
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The antibrachial or forearm muscles may be divided into a volar and a dorsal group.
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