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Suprascapular, axillary and radial nerves

Suprascapular, axillary and radial nerves — Peripheral nerves
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After Gray's Anatomy (1918); modernized for Neuro.Wiki

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Suprascapular, axillary and radial nerves.

The posterior aspect of the arm is dominated by the triceps brachii, whose long head arises from the infraglenoid tubercle of the scapula while the lateral and medial heads take origin from the humerus; the three converge on the olecranon of the ulna. Superiorly, the deltoid caps the shoulder, and beneath it lie the rotator cuff muscles supraspinatus, infraspinatus and teres minor, together with teres major. The axillary nerve winds around the surgical neck of the humerus, and the radial nerve spirals along its groove, giving branches to triceps, anconeus, brachioradialis and the extensores carpi radiales.

Region
limb
Structure
arm
View
posterior
System
peripheral nerves, muscle
Focus
suprascapular nerve, axillary nerve, radial nerve, triceps brachii

Structures labelled on this plate

  • Suprascapular
  • Supra- spinatus
  • Infra- spinatus
  • Deltoideus
  • Teres minor
  • Axillary
  • Teres major
  • Longus Head
  • Lateral head
  • Triceps
  • Radial
  • Medial Head
  • Anconaeus
  • Deep branch of radial

Source: After Gray's Anatomy (1918). Public domain (Gray's Anatomy, 1918), modernized rendering.

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