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The Muscular System
Arm Muscles and Their Movements
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Arm muscles move the humerus through flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, and rotation. Nine muscles help produce these arm movements. Two of them, the pectoralis major and latissimus dorsi, come from the axial skeleton. The other seven begin on the scapula and are called scapular muscles.
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Arm muscles are categorized into axial and scapular muscles.
The two axial muscles are the pectoralis major and latissimus dorsi.
The pectoralis major has clavicular and sternocostal heads for arm flexion and extension, respectively. The latissimus dorsi extends the arm. Both the pectoralis major and latissimus dorsi adduct the arm...
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