The Serratus Major is a large Muscle having seven or eight Indentings or Jaggs.
Subclavius, theSerratus Major Anticus, the two Serrati Postici, and the eleven external Intercostals.
The long thoracic nerve# (nerve of Bell), which supplies the serratus anterior, is rarely injured.
Under normal conditions, in making this movement the serratus and rhomboid muscles pull forward the vertebral border and inferior angle of the scapula, and so fix the bone firmly against the chest wall.
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 outlines of Mons Serratus loomed upwards against the night sky.
The plateau expanded, forming a small mountain refuge, sheltered and surrounded by great boulders that were a part of Mons Serratus towering beyond them.
This muscle occupies the subscapular fossa, from which it takes its origin, leaving free the superior part where the surface is found, to which are attached the serratus magnus and the levator anguli scapulae.
Because of the connections of the serratus magnus with the levator anguli scapulae, some authors consider it as united with the latter.
It covers, to a greater or less extent, the great serratus muscle.
Conglobate gland, crossed by the nerve called "external respiratory" of Bell, distributed to the serratus magnus muscle.
When we raise the arms from the side and percuss the thorax between the folds of the axillae, where the serratus magnus muscle alone intervenes between the ribs and the skin, the pulmonic sound will answer clearly.
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