Muscle Name: Teres Major

Medical Name:

• Teres Major

Other Names:

• None

Head:

• None (Single muscle)

Movement:

• Adduction of the shoulder joint
  • Bringing the arm closer to the body
• Medial rotation of the shoulder joint
  • Rotating the arm inward
• Extension of the shoulder joint
  • Moving the arm backward

Attachment:

• Origin:
  • Posterior surface of the inferior angle of the scapula
• Insertion:
  • Medial lip of the intertubercular sulcus of the humerus

Related Muscles:

• Latissimus Dorsi
• Rhomboids
• Subscapularis
• Deltoid
• Pectoralis Major

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