Adductor hallucis

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Adductor hallucis is a skeletal muscle that originates at Oblique Head: proximal ends of middle 3 metatarsal bones; Transverse Head: MTP ligaments of lateral 3 toes Inserts to lateral side of base of first phalanx of the 1st toe; sesamoid apparatus, and is supplied by (artery, and nerve), and its actions include:lateral plantar nerve adducts hallux

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