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Metatarsophalangeal joints

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The upper foot is clenching (plantarflexing) at the MTP joints and at the joints of the toes; the central foot is lifting the toes (dorsiflexing) at the MTP joints; and the foot flat on the ground off to the side is in a neutral
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Knowledge (XXG) articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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Kneeling with the MTP joints dorsiflexed (except the MTP joint of the little toe)
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Bones of the right foot; metatarsalphalangeal joints highlighted in an orange box
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The movements permitted in the metatarsophalangeal joints are
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Left: toes adducted (pulled towards the center) and spread (a
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ducted); right, both feet clenched (plantar flexed)
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Metatarsophalangeal

Interphalangeal joints of the foot

Latin
MeSH
D008683
TA98
A03.6.10.801
TA2
1964
FMA
35222 71356, 35222
Anatomical terminology
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joints
metatarsal bones
proximal phalanges
toes
knuckles
hand
condyloid joints
ball
ligaments
flexion
extension
abduction
adduction
circumduction
Left: toes adducted (pulled towards the center) and spread (abducted); right, both feet clenched (plantar flexed)

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