It provides motor innervation to the rhomboid muscles, which pull the scapula towards the spine and levator scapulae muscle, which elevates the scapula.
The grey mantle is 305 mm, and the scapulae are fringed brown, some tipped white.
During the transverse lifts, the scapulae will also articulate and adduct/retract as the weights lift, then abduct/protract as the weights are lowered.
These were divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones, primarily ox scapulae and turtle shells.
Weakness or an inability to elevate the scapula may be present, since the levator scapulae is alone in providing this function.
The upper and lower trapezius fibers also work in tandem with the serratus anterior to upwardly rotate the scapulae, such as during an overhead press.
The pectoral girdle was formed by the paired clavicles, interclavical, scapulae, and coracoids.
Whilst believed by many to be a type of gland, it is actually a collection of adipose tissues lying between the scapulae of rodentine mammals.
