Suprascapular nerve
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| Nerve: Suprascapular nerve | ||
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| The suprascapular, axillary, and radial nerves. (Suprascapular labeled at upper left.) | ||
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| The right brachial plexus with its short branches, viewed from in front. (Suprascapular labeled at upper left.) | ||
| Latin | nervus suprascapularis | |
| Gray's | subject #210 932 | |
| Innervates | supraspinatus, infraspinatus | |
| From | C5–C6 of brachial plexus | |
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| MeSH | [1] | |
The suprascapular nerve arises from the trunk formed by the union of the fifth and sixth cervical nerves. It innervates the supraspinatus muscles and infraspinatus muscles.
It runs lateralward beneath the Trapezius and the Omohyoideus, and enters the supraspinatous fossa through the suprascapular notch, below, the superior transverse scapular ligament; it then passes beneath the Supraspinatus, and curves around the lateral border of the spine of the scapula to the infraspinatous fossa.
In the supraspinatous fossa it gives off two branches to the Supraspinatus muscle, and an articular filament to the shoulder-joint; and in the infraspinatous fossa it gives off two branches to the Infraspinatous muscle, besides some filaments to the shoulder-joint and scapula.
[edit] Disorders
- Suprascapular paralysis is a common condition in veterinary medicine.
[edit] Additional images
 Suprascapular and axillary nerves of right side, seen from behind. |
 Brachial plexus |
[edit] External links
- Duke Orthopedics suprascapular_nerve
- Diagram at physsportsmed.com
- Dictionary at eMedicine Suprascapular+nerve
- SUNY Figs 05:03-02 - "The major subdivisions and terminal nerves of the brachial plexus."
This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained herein may be outdated. Please edit the article if this is the case, and feel free to remove this notice when it is no longer relevant.
| Nerves of upper limbs (primarily): the brachial plexus |
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| supraclavicular: dorsal scapular - suprascapular - to the subclavius - long thoracic
infraclavicular: lateral cord: musculocutaneous (lateral cutaneous of forearm) - lateral pectoral - lateral head of median (anterior interosseous, palmar, common palmar digital, proper palmar digital) medial cord: medial pectoral - medial cutaneous of forearm - medial cutaneous of arm - ulnar (muscular branches, dorsal branch, palmar branch, superficial branch, deep branch) - medial head of median posterior cord: subscapular (upper, lower) - thoracodorsal - axillary (superior lateral cutaneous of arm) - radial (muscular, inferior lateral cutaneous of arm, posterior cutaneous of arm, posterior cutaneous of forearm, superficial branch, deep branch, posterior interosseous) |
- de:Nervus suprascapularis
- sv:Nervus suprascapularis
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