extensor digitorum longus

A penniform muscle of the lateral front part of the hindlimb responsible for extension of the digits and dorsiflexion of the ankle. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the extensor digitorum longus is

A penniform muscle of the lateral front part of the hindlimb responsible for extension of the digits and dorsiflexion of the ankle. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the extensor digitorum longus is

It sits in the lower limb, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the extensor digitorum longus connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: common fibular nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as extensor digitorum longus muscle, toe extensor, toe extensor muscle and musculus extensor digitorum longus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001386, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hindlimb.
• A kind of: extensor muscle and hindlimb muscle.
• originates from: fibula, lateral condyle of tibia and tibia.
• Innervated by: common fibular nerve.
• inserts into: phalanx of pes.

Questions

Where is the extensor digitorum longus?

It sits in the lower limb, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the extensor digitorum longus connect to?

Part of: hindlimb.

Is the extensor digitorum longus the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.