Unit 3 - Bones of the Upper Limb

What are the bones in the pectoral girdle?

Clavicle and scapula

Where does the pectoral girdle connect to the axial skeleton?

At the sternoclavicular joint

The sternoclavicular joint is the ONLY connection between which two structures?

The upper limb and axial skeleton. It is where the appendicular skeleton attaches to the axial skeleton

Acromial end

Is the acromial end of the clavicle medial or lateral?

Lateral

What does the acromial end articulate with?

The acromion of the scapula

Sternal end

Is sternal end of clavicle medial or lateral?

medial 

What does the sternal end of the clavicle articulate with?

The clavicle notch of sternum

Conoid tubercle 

superior angle

supraspinous fossa

Suprascapular notch

Coracoid process

superior border

articular surface for clavicle

acromion

greater scapular notch (or spinoglenoid notch)

glenoid cavity 

What does the glenoid cavity of the scapula articulate with?

The humerus 

What kind of joint is the glenohumeral joint?

ball and socket 

spine of scapula

infraglenoid tubercle

lateral border

infraspinous fossa

inferior angle

medial border

Is this a right or left scapula

right

Coracoid process

acromion

suprascapular notch

superior border

superior angle

glenoid cavity 

infraglenoid tubercle

subscapular fossa

lateral border

inferior angle

medial border

glenoid cavity 

Acromion

superior angle

supraglenoid tubercle

coracoid process

infraglenoid tubercle

Lateral border

inferior angle

What view of the scapula is this?

posterior

What view of the scapula is this?

anterior 

What view of the scapula is this?

lateral 

radial fossa

What is the radial fossa?

where radius and ulna fold in when limb is flexed

lateral epicondyle 

capitulum 

what is the capitulum?

the cap of the radius

trochlea

what is the trochlea?

where the ulna articulates  

medial epicondyle

coronoid fossa

shaft (body)

radial groove 

what is the radial groove?

where the radial and deep brachial nerve wrap around 

deltoid tuberosity

what is the deltoid tuberosity?

where the deltoid muscle inserts 

surgical neck 

intertubercular sulcus 

what is the intertubercular sulcus?

it is the canal between tubercles

anatomical neck

head

what does the head of the humerus articulate with?

glenoid cavity of the scapula

lesser tubercle

greater tubercle

olecranon fossa

what is the olecranon fossa?

where the ulna fits

medial epicondyle

trochlea

lateral epicondyle

deltoid tuberosity

surgical neck 

greater tubercle

head

anatomical neck

is this a right or left humerus?

right

what view of the humerus is this

anterior

what view of the humerus is this?

posterior 

radial notch

head

where does the head of the radius articulate with

the capitulum of the humerus

neck

radial tuberosity 

radius

styloid process of radius 

distal radioulnar joint

styloid process of ulna

head of ulna

ulnar notch 

ulna 

interosseous membrane

proximal radioulnar joint

coronoid process