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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,479 posts) Wed Nov 11, 2020, 03:32 PM Nov 2020

Extensor Digiti Minimi

I hope you can also appreciate this. In the forearms there is one very small muscle that contracts only when lifting the pinky, otherwise it is invisible. Michelangelo's Moses is lifting the pinky, therefore that tiny muscle is contracted.

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Extensor Digiti Minimi (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2020 OP

He was remarkable genxlib Nov 2020 #1

Michelangelo's works are beyond amazing .. CatMor Nov 2020 #2

Fascinating...it's much further down the forearm than I'd have guessed Glorfindel Nov 2020 #3

What kind of workout regimin would give that muscle such definition? intrepidity Nov 2020 #4

Don't eat what I eat. NT mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2020 #5

I thought this was going to be something about... 3catwoman3 Nov 2020 #6

genxlib

(5,528 posts)

1. He was remarkable

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Wed Nov 11, 2020, 03:40 PM

Nov 2020

Probably my favorite artist in my favorite artform of all time. One of the best reasons to go to Italy (besides the food)

CatMor

(6,212 posts)

2. Michelangelo's works are beyond amazing ..

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Wed Nov 11, 2020, 03:41 PM

Nov 2020

one wonders how a human is capable of doing what he did.

Glorfindel

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3. Fascinating...it's much further down the forearm than I'd have guessed

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 03:44 PM

Nov 2020

but hold down the other three fingers, lift the pinky, and the little muscle is just as plain as day!
Thanks for sharing this tidbit, mahatmakanejeeves.