flexor carpi radialis muscle

A muscle of the forearm that acts to flex and abduct the manus. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the flexor carpi radialis muscle is

A muscle of the forearm that acts to flex and abduct the manus. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the flexor carpi radialis muscle is

It sits in the upper limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the flexor carpi radialis muscle connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of forelimb zeugopod.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the flexor carpi radialis muscle. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as flexor carpi radialis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001521, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: forelimb zeugopod.
• A kind of: flexor muscle and forelimb zeugopod muscle.
• inserts into: metacarpal bone.
• originates from: entepicondyle of humerus.

Questions

Where is the flexor carpi radialis muscle?

It sits in the upper limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the flexor carpi radialis muscle connect to?

Part of: forelimb zeugopod.

Is the flexor carpi radialis muscle 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.