Great scapular notch

Great scapular notch
Left scapula. Dorsal surface. Great scapular notch shown in red.
Great scapular notch shown in red.
*Anatomical terms of bone*

The great scapular notch (or spinoglenoid notch)is a notch which serves to connect the supraspinatous fossa and infraspinatous fossa.

Suprascapular artery and suprascapular nerve pass around the great scapular notch.

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Anatomy photo:05:os-0211 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Axillary Region: Scapula (Left)"

Radius	near elbow (head, tuberosity) near wrist (ulnar notch, styloid process, Lister's tubercle)
Ulna	near elbow (tuberosity, olecranon, coronoid process, radial notch, trochlear notch) near wrist (styloid process)

Carpal bones	scaphoid lunate triquetral pisiform trapezium trapezoid capitate hamate hamulus
Metacarpal bones	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
Phalanges	proximal intermediate distal

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