Portions

With humans the muscle has four parts:

• Pars vertebralis (whirl-hurry)
• Pars costalis (rib part)
• Pars iliaca (lap part)
• Pars scapularis (shoulder sheet part)

Function

The Musculus latissimus dorsi turns the arm on the backs, whereby the palm shows outward, e.g. if the hand to the is led. For this reason it is also called "„apron binder muscles "“or in an older German translation also "“(lat. musculus "“). It unfolds its main effect with raised arms, which it can lower or on which it the trunk upward pull can (e.g. with He is thereby the antagonist of the Musculus deltoideus and the trapezoid muscle. With the Musculus teres major it forms the rear shoulder fold.

The Musculus latissimus dorsi has its origin at the trunk. It pulls itself from the cross and intestine leg over the thorn extensions of the Lenden and Brustwirbel by the shoulder cave to the upper arm. It forms a salient sample with the front saw tooth muscle. The M. latissimus dorsi is the surface-largest muscle of humans.

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