Supraspinous fascia

Supraspinous fascia

Muscles on the dorsum of the scapula, and the Triceps brachii. (Fascia not labeled, but Supraspinatus visible at top right.)
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Identifiers
Latin fascia supraspinata
Dorlands
/Elsevier
f_14/12376748
TA A04.6.02.007
FMA 38353

Anatomical terminology

The supraspinous fascia completes the osseofibrous case in which the supraspinatus muscle is contained; it affords attachment, by its deep surface, to some of the fibers of the muscle.

It is thick medially, but thinner laterally under the coracoacromial ligament.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


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