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1
Q

What is the name given to this area of arm?

A

The cubital fossa

2
Q

What is the cubital fossa?

Where is it located?

A

An area of transition between the anatomical arm and the forearm

It is located on the anatomical surface of the elbow

3
Q

What is the lateral border of the cubital fossa made up of?

A

Formed by the medial border of the brachioradialis

4
Q

What is the medial border of the cubital fossa made up of?

A

The lateral border of the pronator teres

5
Q

What is the superior border of the cubital fossa made up of?

A

Formed by imaginary line between the epicondyles and the humerus

6
Q

What is the floor of the cubital fossa made up of?

A

Brachialis and the supinator muscles

7
Q

What is the roof of the cubital fossa made up of?

A

Skin, fascia reinforced by the bicipital aponeurosis

8
Q

What are the contents of the cubital fossa, lateral to medial?

A-D

A

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Radial nerve

Biceps tendon

Brachial artery

Median nerve

9
Q

Where is blood pressure taken with a stethoscope?

A

Via the brachial artery pulse, that can be felt by palpating immediately to the biceps tendon in the cubital fossa

10
Q

What are the three muscles found in the anterior compartment of the arm?

A

BBC

Biceps, Brachialis and Corachobrachialis

11
Q

What is A?

Where does it attach?

A

The long head of the biceps brachii, which originates from supraglenoid tubercle of the scapula

12
Q

What is B?

Where does it attach?

A

The short head of the biceps brachii

Originates from the coracoid process of the scapula

13
Q

What is C?

A

Belly of the biceps brachii

14
Q

What is D?

A

The point at which the biceps distally attach to the radius

15
Q

What is the main role of the biceps brachii?

A

Supination of the forearm

It also flexes the arm and the shoulder