Translations:Schulterblatt/5/en

The Caput humeri is approximately spherical. The synovial joint capsule is attached to the labrum glenoidale of the scapula.
Movements in three degrees of freedom are possible. It is called abduction and adduction, whereby the resting position of the caput humeri in the scapula plane is assumed. There is the anteversion, the lifting of the arm forward and its counter-movement, the retroversion. By a rotatory component, a compound movement, the circumduction or the circling, results with the participation of the aforementioned movements, whereby the arm practically describes a cone mantle.