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Lateral compartment of leg

muscle group of the human leg that everts the foot and weakly plantarflexes the ankle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ17125905 ↗
Source-derived summary

The lateral compartment of the leg is a fascial compartment of the lower leg. It contains muscles which make eversion and plantarflexion of the foot.

Muscles

The lateral compartment of the leg contains:

Fibularis longus

Fibularis brevis

Action

Foot evertors

Foot plantarflexion

Nerve supply

The lateral compartment of the leg is supplied by the superficial fibular nerve (superficial peroneal nerve).

Blood supply

Its proximal and distal arterial supply consists of perforating branches of the anterior tibial artery and fibular artery.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 80-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Lateral, compartment and muscle can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as muscle group of the human leg that everts the foot and weakly plantarflexes the ankle. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q17125905. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lateral compartment of leg” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.