The extensor carpi radialis brevis muscle aids in moving the hand. Specifically, it abducts and extends the hand at the wrist joint. The muscle works in concert with the extensor carpi radialis longus ...

Essay awarded the "Boylston" prize for 1897, department of anatomy and physiology, by the Boylstonmedical committee, Boston, Mass.

THE hand as a source of clinical information is so obvious that it may be neglected; yet there are no parts of the body more accessible for clinical study. Unique for its abundance of muscles, nerves ...

The upper two-thirds to three-fourths of the muscle extends over the fibula and the muscle passes below the cruciate crural and transverse ligaments. After passing these ligaments, the muscle divides ...