Dog · Muscle · Vertebral column
Thoracic rhomboid muscle
Musculus rhomboideus thoracis
Draws the scapula back and toward the spine; holds it against the trunk.
- System
- Muscle
- Region
- Vertebral column
- Sides
- Paired: left and right
Where it runs from and to
A muscle is told apart from its neighbours by what it takes hold of at each end, which is also what decides what it does when it shortens.
- Origin
- Tips of the spines of the first few thoracic vertebrae.
- Insertion
- Hind part of the scapula's upper edge and the cartilage along it.
- Action
- Draws the scapula back and toward the spine; holds it against the trunk.
- Nerve
- Ventral branches of the cranial thoracic nerves.
Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the dog; the books it was checked against are listed below.
What it works on
Bones it takes hold of
- Scapula
- Thoracic vertebrae
Muscles and ligaments it works with
- Rhomboideus cervicis
- Trapezius thoracic part
- Latissimus dorsi
- Serratus ventralis thoracis
- Serratus dorsalis cranialis
Terminology
- English
- Thoracic rhomboid muscle
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus rhomboideus thoracis
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
References
Where to read this structure in full, and where the named parts above were read.
- NAV 2017Myologia: musculi colli, trunci et membri thoracici (extrinsic muscles of the thoracic limb)
- Miller's Anatomy of the Dog, 5th ed.The Muscular System: muscles of the thoracic limb (extrinsic)
- König & LiebichMuscles of the thoracic limb
- Dyce, Sack & WensingThe forelimb of the carnivores
- Miller 2020 (book pass)ch. 6 The Muscular System, PDF p. 512