Great scapular notch

Great scapular notch
Left scapula. Dorsal surface. Great scapular notch shown in red.
Great scapular notch shown in red.
*Anatomical terms of bone* [edit on Wikidata]

The great scapular notch (or spinoglenoid notch)is a notch which serves to connect the supraspinatous fossa and infraspinatous fossa.

Suprascapular artery and suprascapular nerve pass around the great scapular notch.

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This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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Anatomy photo:05:os-0211 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Axillary Region: Scapula (Left)"

Radius	proximal (head, tuberosity) distal (ulnar notch, styloid process, Lister's tubercle)

Ulna	upper extremity (tuberosity, olecranon, coronoid process, radial notch, trochlear notch) body lower extremity (head, styloid process)

Carpal bones	scaphoid lunate triquetral pisiform trapezium trapezoid capitate hamate hamulus

Metacarpal bones	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

Phalanges	proximal intermediate distal

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