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Shoulder, axilla, arm, elbow and cubital fossa

Published on October 30, 2025   42 min

Other Talks in the Series: Introduction to Gross Anatomy for Medicine

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Hello, everyone. I am Dr. Simone Pierre, and I'm a lecturer in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at the St. George's University, Grenada. Today, I'm going to be discussing some parts of the upper limb that includes the shoulder, axilla, arm, elbow, and cubital fossa.
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Today, our learning outcomes would be to describe the anatomy of the shoulder, the anatomy of the axilla, describe the anatomy of the arm and the anatomy of the elbow and cubital fossa. During these discussions, we will discuss things like the bones that will make up these different parts, the muscles that are attached to these bones, and the neurovascular structures that will course through or be a part of these areas.
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Let us do a brief overview of those areas of the upper limb. As mentioned before, when we look at the upper limb, there are several joints or articulations between the bones. We have our shoulder joint or elbow joint and our wrist joint. The shoulder joint, which is the most proximal joint, is going to be the area that attaches the trunk of the body to that upper limb. Between our shoulder and our elbow joint, we have an area called the arm. Between our elbow and our wrist joint, that area is called the forearm, and distal to the wrist joint is our hand. In our discussions today we'll be talking about areas like the axilla, cubital fossa. These will be significant areas of transition between the different parts of the limb.

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