Extensor digiti minimi muscle

Extensor digiti minimi muscle
Tendons of the back of the hand. The tendon of the extensor digiti minimi muscle is below the kl. Fingers with QUNITI PROP. labeled
origin
Common tendon of the extensors and interosseous membrane
approach
Dorsal (back) side of the little finger
function
Little finger extensor
Innervation
Radial nerve of the brachial plexus
Spinal segments
C7, C8

The extensor digiti minimi ( Latin for little finger extensor ) or extensor digiti quinti proprius muscle is one of the muscles of the superficial extensor muscles of the back of the forearm . Functionally, it belongs to the extensor digitorum muscle , but since it has its own tendon that runs through the fifth tendon sheath of the extensor retinaculum , it is considered separately.