hypothenar muscle
Any of three muscles of the palm that control the motion of the little finger. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the hypothenar muscle is
Any of three muscles of the palm that control the motion of the little finger. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the hypothenar muscle is
It sits in the upper limb and hand, within the muscular system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.
What the hypothenar muscle connects to
The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of intrinsic muscle of manus.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the hypothenar 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 hypothenar, hypothenar muscle and hypothenar muscles. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0014377, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: intrinsic muscle of manus.
- subtype: abductor digiti minimi of hand, flexor digiti minimi brevis of hand, opponens digiti minimi of hand and palmaris brevis.
Questions
Where is the hypothenar muscle?
It sits in the upper limb and hand, within the muscular system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.
What does the hypothenar muscle connect to?
A kind of: intrinsic muscle of manus.
Is the hypothenar 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.