The Anterior Neck
This muscle can flex the head and neck, along with producing ipsilateral side flexion and contralateral rotation.
What is the sternocleidomastoid muscle?
This trapezoidal shaped muscle is innervated by the spinal accessory nerve.
What is the trapezius muscle?
"Army goes over the bridge and Navy goes under the bridge".
What is the suprascapular artery and nerve?
This muscle compartment contains the coracobrachialis, biceps brachii, and the brachialis muscles.
What is the anterior arm compartment?
Its boundaries are made up of the abductor pollicis longus, extensor pollicis brevis, and extensor pollicis longus tendons.
What is the anatomical snuff box?
Resides in the deep floor of the posterior triangle and encased by the pre-vertebral fascia.
What is the Scaleneus musculature or Scalene muscles?
What is the dorsal scapular nerve?
The rotator cuff muscle that produces internal rotation of the humerus.
What is the subscapularis muscle?
The profundus brachii or deep artery of the arm courses along side it.
What is the radial nerve?
The "flick your bic" muscle! It is innervated by the anterior interosseous nerve.
What is the flexor pollicis longus muscle?
Known as the "wandering" nerve. It is contained within the carotid sheath.
What is the vagus nerve (cranial nerve X)?
The lady between two majors.
What is the lattisumus dorsi tendon?
This artery arises from the brachiocephalic trunk on the right side and the aortic arch on the left side.
What is the subclavian artery?
Attaches onto the infraglenoid tubercle of the scapula.
What is the long head of the triceps brachii muscle?
It has the greatest cross-sectional area of the pronator-flexor muscle group and flexes the MCP and PIP joints.
What is the flexor digitorum superficialis?
This artery comes from the first zone of the subclavius artery and enters the transverse foramen of C6.
What is the vertebral artery?
The pair making a "square" muscle are antagonists to serratus anterior muscle.
What is the rhomboids?
Sometimes referred to as the "The joint of Louis".
What is the sternomanubrial joint?
Compression on the posterior cord of the brachial plexus resulting in "wrist drop".
What is Saturday night palsy?
This is best described as atropy of the thenar eminence resulting in the thumb being pulled into adduction.
What is ape hand deformity?
"C3, C4, C5 keep you alive!"
What is the phrenic nerve?
This muscle attaches onto the ligamentous nuchae, spine of the scapula, and distal 1/3rd of the clavice.
What is the trapezius muscle?
This muscle attaches to each of the three bones comprising the shoulder girdle.
What is the deltoid muscle?
It runs along side the brachial artery through the anterior arm compartment to enter the cubital fossa.
What is the median nerve?
It flexes the MCP joints and extends the interphalangeal joints of the 2nd-5th digits.
What are the lumbrical and interossei muscles?