Scapula Anatomy and Structure

• The scapula is a triangular bone that is thick at the lateral angle and projects upwards into the bent coracoid process.
• The lateral border is thick down to the inferior angle.
• The rest of the blade is composed of thin, translucent bone.
• From the upper part of the dorsal surface, a triangular spine projects back and extends laterally as a curved plate of bone, the acromion, over the shoulder joint.
• The costal surface is concave and marked by three or four ridges that converge from the medial border towards the lateral angle.
• These give attachment to fibrous septa from which the multipennate fibres of subscapularis arise.
• The muscle is attached to the medial two-thirds of the costal surface and the lateral third is bare and separated from the overlying muscle by the subscapularis bursa.
• The first two digitations are attached from the superior angle down to the base of the spine.
• The next two digitations are thinned out from this level down to the inferior angle, while the last four digitations converge to a roughened area on the costal surface of the inferior angle.

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