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| Junior,Paulo de Souza; Santos,Lucas M.R.P. dos; Nogueira,Daniele M.P.; Abidu-Figueiredo,Marcelo; Santos,André L.Q.. |
| The brachioradialis is an important muscle that acts in the external rotation of the forearm (supination). However, its occurrence is controversial and little studied in the order Carnivora. Thus, this study investigates the occurrence and anatomo-functional arrangement of this muscle in wild carnivorans species. Fifty-eight thoracic limbs of specimens from species of Canidae, Procyonidae, Mustelidae and Felidae were dissected. Measurements of the length of the muscle (ML), the length of the forearm (FL), latero-medial width of the muscle (MW) and the lateral-medial diameter of the forearm (FD) were obtained to establish the ratios MW/FD and ML/FL in order to investigate the relative proportion of the muscle in relation to the forearm of each species. The... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Comparative anatomy; Forelimb; Myology. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702015000100023 |
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