compartments of palm

Introduction

Hypothenar fascia & compartments: Hypothenar muscles:

• abductor digiti minimi
• flexor digiti minimi
• opponens digiti minimi Thenar fascia & thenar compartment: attached to the palmar aspect of the 1st metacarpal. Thenar muscles: chiefly responsible for opposition of the thumb.
• abductor pollicis brevis
• flexor pollicis brevis
• opponens pollicis Central compartment: covered by the palmar aponeurosis. Midpalmar space covers the central comapartment, the muscles act on all the phalanges except the thumb. Short muscles:
• Lumbricals
• Dorsal & the palmar interosseous Adductor comparment: deepest muscular plane, contains the adductor pollicis muscle.

More general terms

• anatomic structure

Component of

• hand