The name given to this muscle by Krause (1884) and in other text-books on the anatomy of the rabbit (Bensley ( 1938)) is M. extensor hallucis.As the main function elicitable reflexly is one of abduction rather than extension, the muscle might be more appropriately named M. abductor hallucis.
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E Gutmann (1942) studied this question.
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