Anatomy - Unit 1, Region 2, Lecture 1

Back and Posterior Lateral Shoulder

musculature

need to know origins, insertions, and functions of muscles

nerve innervations

need to know if nerves are motor or sensory

blood supplies

need to know arteries, veins, and lymphatic

palpations

to use touch to identify injury or disease

percussions

tapping surface to determine underlying structures

ausculatations

listening to the body with a stethoscope

adipose deposition

obstructs ability to identify surface anatomy, more pronounced in obese organisms, the quantity of stores triglyceride and number of adipocytes are stable in a person