flexor digitorum profundus

A muscle in the forearm that flexes the manual digits[WP,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the flexor digitorum profundus is

A muscle in the forearm that flexes the manual digits[WP,modified]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the flexor digitorum profundus is

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

What the flexor digitorum profundus connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of forelimb stylopod.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the flexor digitorum profundus. 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 digitorum profundus muscle and musculus flexor digitorum profundus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001523, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: forelimb stylopod.
• A kind of: flexor muscle and forelimb stylopod muscle.
• originates from: diaphysis of ulna and lumbrical muscle of manus.
• antagonist of: extensor digitorum communis.

Questions

Where is the flexor digitorum profundus?

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

What does the flexor digitorum profundus connect to?

Part of: forelimb stylopod.

Is the flexor digitorum profundus 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.