Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, one of several fibular muscles.
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- noun anatomy Any of the
fibularis muscles .
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- noun muscle of the lower leg that is involved in moving the foot
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Examples
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My right peroneus muscle, a muscle that sounds like a villain in a Shakespearian play, and possibly the soleus are strained and possibly torn.
Janet Turley: New York City Marathon Training: Stop Breakin' Down Janet Turley 2011
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My right peroneus muscle, a muscle that sounds like a villain in a Shakespearian play, and possibly the soleus are strained and possibly torn.
Janet Turley: New York City Marathon Training: Stop Breakin' Down Janet Turley 2011
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My right peroneus muscle, a muscle that sounds like a villain in a Shakespearian play, and possibly the soleus are strained and possibly torn.
Janet Turley: New York City Marathon Training: Stop Breakin' Down Janet Turley 2011
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The quadriceps group of muscles is assisted by the anterior digital extensor (extensor pedis) peroneus tertius and tibialis anticus (flexor metatarsi) muscles.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Stump of common tendon of extensor longus and peroneus tertius.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Contraction can be induced in the extensor longus hallucis, extensor longus digitorum, and peroneus brevis; but reaction is doubtful in the case of the tibialis anticus and peroneus longus.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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In the anterior tibial and peroneal groups the faradic irritability is much diminished, that in the peroneus longus being the lowest of all.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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_ This consists in cutting the tendon of the peroneus muscle.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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No serious changes are present except in the peroneus longus.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Divisions of the lateral digital extensor (peroneus) below the tarsus near its point of insertion to the extensor of the digit is recommended here because it is followed by a percentage of recoveries that is as large as in any other method of treatment and the operation is not difficult to perform nor is its performance fraught with any dangerous complications.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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