Muscular branches of ulnar nerve

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Nerve: Muscular branches of ulnar nerve
Latin	rami musculares nervi ulnaris
Gray's	subject #210 942
Innervates	Flexor carpi ulnaris, Flexor digitorum profundus
From	ulnar nerve
Dorlands / Elsevier	r_02/12691037

The muscular branches of ulnar nerve, two in number, arise near the elbow: one supplies the Flexor carpi ulnaris; the other, the ulnar half of the Flexor digitorum profundus. (Both are deep muscles of the anterior compartment of the forearm).

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