Upper Limb - 4

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Which carpal bone is prone to avascular necrosis when fractured, due to the distal to proximal nature of its blood supply?

Which of tennis or golfer's elbow is medicaly known as lateral epichondylitis?

Which small muscle is a connection between the first rib and the inferior surface of the clavicle, as well as being part of the anterior border of the axilla?

Which muscle forms the medial wall of the axilla?

What does the subclavian artery become at the border of the first rib?

Axillary lymphnodes recieve lymph from the breast, abdominal wall above umbilicus and which major structure?

Although it may vary the breast is normally attatched from the 2nd to which rib?

What intercostal space level is the nipple generally found at?

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Well known due to it having afflicted Kaiser Willhelm Erb's palsy is the avulsion of which trunk in the brachial plexus, leading to a waiter's tip deformity?

Klumpke's palsy results in waisting of the intrinsic muscles of the hand, which nerve root does it affect?

The phrase "the closer to the paw the worse the claw" is in reference to what anatomical complication?

What part of the scapula articulates with the clavicle?

How many times greater is the surface area of the humeral head than the glenoid fossa?

Movement around the shoulder joint occurs in 3 different planes, abduction/adduction, flexion/extension and what final plane?

Which muscle innervated by the axillary nerve inserts into a v shaped tuberosity on the humerus named after it?