Remove the pectoralis muscles covering the body between the arms to show the bones of the central part of the shoulder girdle and sternum, viz.
The cutaneous and the muscular veins, lying under the pectoralis muscle, and arising independently from the subclavian vein.
In the Frog a single musculo-cutaneous vein is seen lying under the pectoralis muscle and extends on to the skin.
The obliquus-externus muscle, lying under the second pectoralis muscle noted above.
If the head of the humerus be dislocated forwards beneath L, Plate 11, the coracoid attachment of the pectoralis minor muscle, it must press out of their proper place and put tensely upon the stretch the axillary vessels and plexus of nerves.
The tendon from the pectoralis major muscle, which inserts on this process, probably finds better insertion on a higher process than on a lower but longer one.
The pectoral set of muscles varies but little in the family; flight power is seemingly not dependent upon size of either the pectoralis major or pectoralis minor.
Ligature has been performed in this position by separating the pectoralis and deltoid muscles, without dividing the muscular fibres (Roux, Desault).
The incisions should, if possible, be parallel with the fibres of the pectoralis major, and extend across the full diameter of the breast.
When the whole breast is to be removed, two incisions, inclosing an elliptical portion of skin along with the nipple, must be made in the direction of the fibres of the pectoralis muscle.
The clavicular portion of the pectoralis major must then be divided right across its fibres, which will retract.
The arm must then be brought close to the side to relax the pectoralis minor, which must be drawn aside.
The pectoralis major forms the anterior fold of the axilla or armpit, the posterior being formed by the latissimus dorsi and teres major muscles.
Below the edge of the pectoralis major, the swelling of the biceps (fig.
Muscles of the Thorax =The Pectoralis Major= (Fig.
The pope has a noble little device called pectoralis reservatio, i.
A great, fan-shaped muscle, called the pectoralis major, lies on the chest.
If the paralysis persists, the sterno-costal portion of the pectoralis major may be transplanted to the lower angle of the scapula.
The pectoralis transversus and other muscles were found to harbour a considerable number of encysted Trichinæ.
The bolus consisted of a portion of the pectoralis major of a subject brought to the dissecting-room at the Middlesex Hospital.
The pectoralis major is got through by separation and division of the fibres, the incision in it being made with as little cross-cutting as possible.
Part of the pectoralis minor, probably the superior half of the muscle, must also be cut.
The head passes farther upwards and towards the middle line under cover of the pectoralis minor, resting under the clavicle against the serratus anterior and chest wall.
The coracoid process can be recognised in the upper and lateral angle of the triangular depression bounded by the pectoralis major, the deltoid, and the clavicle.
Much less frequently it passes under cover of thepectoralis minor and against the edge of the clavicle--the sub-clavicular variety.
The surgical neck of the humerus extends from the level of the epiphysial junction to the insertion of the pectoralis major and teres major muscles, and it is within these limits that most fractures of the upper end of bone occur.
It may happen that the head is rotated and inclined to the same side, as in Grasset's case, where the curious combination occurred of clonic convulsion of left trapezius and pectoralis major with right pectoralis major and sternomastoid.
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