SCALPEL: Stanford Medicine Anatomy Course - Bones of the Shoulder and Arm

Here we have a specimen of a right scapula. Note that this is a very flat, triangular bone and we're looking at the anterior surface of the scapula. The scapula has a fairly prominent medial border as well as a lateral border, and these two borders come and unite at the inferior angle. Superiorly, the scapula has some prominent bony projections. The first one is the coracoid process which is seen here. It's a beak-like projection and hence the name coracoid, which suggests a raven's or a crow's beak. Here we see the glenoid cavity, which is a rather shallow cavity which articulates with the head of the humerus to form the glenohumeral joint, or the shoulder joint proper...