Encyclopedia > Brachioradialis muscle

  Article Content

Brachioradialis

Redirected from Brachioradialis muscle

Brachioradialis is a muscle located in the forearm, that acts to flex the elbow[?].

Attached to the distal radius and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus, it's body can be made visible in certain types of flexion.

If a person half-pronates their arm, to make a fist like they're holding a handled vessel of beer, then puts their fist under a table or desk and tries to flex at the elbow, the brachioradialis will stand out of the forearm, visible under the skin.

It is on the dorsal side of the forearm, so is innervated by the radial nerve.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Monty Woolley

... an American actor. Born Edgar Montillion Wooley in New York City, Woolley was a professor and lecturer at Yale University (one of his students was Thornton Wilder) who ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 21.3 ms