Trapezoid ligament

Trapezoid ligament

The left shoulder and acromioclavicular joints, and the proper ligaments of the scapula. (Trapezoid visible at center top.)

Glenoid fossa of right side.
Details
Latin ligamentum trapezoideum
From coracoid process (scapula)
To trapezoid line (clavicle)
Identifiers
Gray's p.315
Dorlands
/Elsevier		 l_09/12493465
TA A03.5.03.005
FMA 26030
Anatomical terminology

The trapezoid ligament, the anterior and lateral fasciculus, is broad, thin, and quadrilateral: it is placed obliquely between the coracoid process and the clavicle.

It is attached, below, to the upper surface of the coracoid process; above, to the oblique ridge on the under surface of the clavicle.

Its anterior border is free; its posterior border is joined with the conoid ligament, the two forming, by their junction, an angle projecting backward.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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