Landmark · Skeletal system
Lateral border of scapula
Margo lateralis scapulae
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Trunk, Upper limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Landmark on
- Scapula
DescriptionUnreviewed
The axillary border (or "lateral border") is the thickest of the three.
It begins above at the lower margin of the glenoid cavity, and inclines obliquely downward and backward to the inferior angle.
It is referred to as the caudal border in animals.
It begins above at the lower margin of the glenoid cavity, and inclines obliquely downward and backward to the inferior angle.
Immediately below the glenoid cavity is a rough impression, the infraglenoid tuberosity, about 2.5 cm (1 in). in length, which gives origin to the long head of the triceps brachii; in front of this is a longitudinal groove, which extends as far as the lower third of this border, and affords origin to part of the subscapularis.
The inferior third is thin and sharp, and serves for the attachment of a few fibers of the teres major behind, and of the subscapularis in front.
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Names
- Latin
- Margo lateralis scapulae
- English
- Lateral border of scapula
- French
- Bord latéral de la scapula
- Spanish
- Margen lateral de la escápula
- Portuguese
- Borda lateral da escápula