Supraspinatous fascia

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Supraspinatous fascia
Muscles on the dorsum of the scapula, and the Triceps brachii. (Fascia not labeled, but Supraspinatus visible at top right.)
Latin fascia supraspinata
Gray's subject #123 440
Dorlands/Elsevier f_14/12376748

The supraspinatous 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.

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