Encyclopedia > Peroneus longus

  Article Content

Peroneus longus muscle

Redirected from Peroneus longus

The muscle peroneus longus (also known as fibularis longus) is a superficial muscle in the human leg, and acts to evert and plantar flex the ankle.

It is attached proximally to the head of the fibula[?] and its 'belly' runs down most of this bone.

Peroneus longus becomes a tendon that goes posterially around the lateral malleolus of the ankle[?], then continues under the foot to attach to the 1st metatarsal.

Being a muscle of the lateral compartment of the leg, peroneus longus is innervated by the superficial peroneal 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
Great River, New York

... age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 104.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 97.8 males. The median income ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 38 ms