. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. eflected over thelong tendon of the biceps. The capsule is reinforced at some pointsby thickenings of itself which are known as lig^aments and by tendonsof the scapular muscles ; on the inner side it is perforated by the tendonof the subscapularis, and there shows a gap through which the cavityof the joint communicates with the subscapular bursa, a large pouchlying against the inner side of the neck of the scapula and the root ofthe eoracoid process, between them and the upper part of the subscap-ularis. This opening lies just in front of t


. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. eflected over thelong tendon of the biceps. The capsule is reinforced at some pointsby thickenings of itself which are known as lig^aments and by tendonsof the scapular muscles ; on the inner side it is perforated by the tendonof the subscapularis, and there shows a gap through which the cavityof the joint communicates with the subscapular bursa, a large pouchlying against the inner side of the neck of the scapula and the root ofthe eoracoid process, between them and the upper part of the subscap-ularis. This opening lies just in front of the upper ])art of the ante-rior (inner) margin of the glenoid fossa, has the form of a slit or DISLOCATIONS OF THE SHOULDER. 609 crescent, and is usually large enough to admit the end of the the synovial membrane has been dissected away the gap has theform shown in Figs. 373 and 374, and is partly occupied by the tendonof the subscapularis. The portion of the capsule which forms its Fig. 373. Supragleno-supiahumeralligament Subscapularis. The shoulder-joint from in front. (Farabeuf.) upper margin is called the gleno-humeral ligament^ or, to adopt thesubdivisions described by Farabeuf,^ the supragleno-suprahumeral, theportion forming the lower margin is the supragleno-prsehumeral, and Fig. 374.


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