Weakness in Which of the Following Muscles Can Result in a Clawing

question 15

Multiple Choice

Weakness in which of the following muscles can result in a clawing posture of the hand?

• A)Extensor digitorum
• B)Interossei, lumbricals
• C)Flexor pollicis longus
• D)Opponens pollicis, palmaris brevis

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Ulna

One of the two long bones in the forearm, located on the side opposite the thumb, that forms the elbow joint with the humerus above and the wrist joint with the radius below.

Radius

A bone in the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist alongside the ulna, crucial for wrist movement.

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