Muscles / Chest
Subclavius
- Chest
- Shoulder & scapula
- Deep layer
Anatomy
- Origin
- Junction of the 1st rib and its costal cartilage
- Insertion
- Inferior surface of the middle third of the clavicle
- Nerve
- Nerve to subclavius (C5-C6)
Actions
- Anchors and depresses the clavicle
Also trained by
References (4)
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- Dalley AF, Agur AMR. Wolters Kluwer. Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy. 9th ed.
- Neumann DA. Elsevier. Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System: Foundations for Rehabilitation. 3rd ed.
- Betts JG, Young KA, Wise JA, et al. OpenStax (free, openly licensed textbook). Anatomy and Physiology 2e