Exam 9: The Upper Limb

The intrinsic muscles of the hand that enable the fine positioning of the fingers and thumb for skilled movements include all of the following except the _____________________.

What are the four rotator cuff muscles?

The ________ is the single bone of the upper arm.

The ________ is the superoposterior portion of the trochlear notch of the ulna and forms the bony prominence of the elbow.

The shoulder girdle is composed of the _____________________________.

Venous drainage in the upper arm begins in the hand and culminates in the _________ vein in the root of the neck.

The __________ muscle is a large triangular muscle on the anterior chest wall that can flex, medially rotate, and adduct the arm.

The motor and sensory nerve supply to the upper limb is via the _________________.

The _________ artery and its branches provide the entire arterial supply to the upper limb.

The _________ joint is an articulation between the spherical head of the humerus and the shallow depression of the glenoid fossa of the scapula and is a ball-and-socket configuration that allows three degrees of freedom.