Teres minor muscle
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| Teres minor muscle | ||
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| Suprascapular and axillary nerves of right side, seen from behind. (Teres minor is visible at center.) | ||
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| Muscles on the dorsum of the scapula, and the Triceps brachii muscle: #3 is Latissimus dorsi muscle #5 is Teres major muscle #6 is Teres minor muscle #7 is Supraspinatus muscle #8 is Infraspinatus muscle #13 is long head of Triceps brachii muscle |
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| Latin | musculus teres minor | |
| Gray's | subject #123 441 | |
| Origin: | lateral border of the scapula | |
| Insertion: | inferior facet of greater tubercle of the humerus | |
| Artery: | lateral circumflex humeral artery and the circumflex scapular artery | |
| Nerve: | axillary nerve | |
| Action: | laterally rotates and adducts the arm | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | m_22/12551124 | |
The Teres minor is a narrow, elongated muscle of the rotator cuff.
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[edit] Origin and insertion
It arises from the dorsal surface of the axillary border of the scapula for the upper two-thirds of its extent, and from two aponeurotic laminæ, one of which separates it from the Infraspinatus, the other from the Teres major.
Its fibers run obliquely upward and lateralward; the upper ones end in a tendon which is inserted into the lowest of the three impressions on the greater tubercle of the humerus; the lowest fibers are inserted directly into the humerus immediately below this impression.
[edit] Relations
The tendon of this muscle passes across, and is united with, the posterior part of the capsule of the shoulder-joint.
[edit] Action
The Infraspinatus and Teres minor rotate the head of the humerus outward; they also assist in carrying the arm backward.
[edit] Variations
It is sometimes inseparable from the Infraspinatus.
Sometimes a group of muscle fibres from teres minor may be fused with infraspinatus.
[edit] Additional images
 Diagram of the human shoulder joint |
 Left scapula. Dorsal surface. |
 Left humerus. Posterior view. |
 The scapular and circumflex arteries. |
 The suprascapular, axillary, and radial nerves. |
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