Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An interosseous muscle; a muscle; lying in an interosseous space, as between the metacarpal bones of the hand or the metatarsal bones of the foot.

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  • noun anatomy Any of various muscles located between bones.

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Examples

  • Rob - as someone with 20 years experience as a massage therapist up until the interosseus membrane in my wrist tore away from its companion piece the ulna - which is why I need your gnome, JB I will tell you that massage therapists experience a great many confusing things in their dark little cells and spontaneous eruptions of giggling are low on the list of things that are likely to trouble us.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Deadline milestone. The firing up of the Gaggia. 2009

  • Successfully ligated two arteries, but the anterior interosseus escaped me, being retracted into the flesh after I sawed through the bones.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • The crucial or interosseus, anterior and posterior, are situated between the femur and tibia, and according to Smith, [34] the crucial ligaments are necessary to properly join the two bones, because of the character of the structure of the articular ends of the femur and tibia.

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

  • The volar interosseous nerve (n. interosseus [antibrachii] volaris; anterior interosseous nerve) supplies the deep muscles on the front of the forearm, except the ulnar half of the Flexor digitorum profundus.

    IX. Neurology. 6b. The Anterior Divisions 1918

  • The Deep Branch of the Radial Nerve (n. interosseus dorsalis; dorsal or posterior interosseous nerve) winds to the back of the forearm around the lateral side of the radius between the two planes of fibers of the Supinator, and is prolonged downward between the superficial and deep layers of muscles, to the middle of the forearm.

    IX. Neurology. 6b. The Anterior Divisions 1918

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