A rough elevation at the middle of the lateral side of the shaft of the humerus to which the deltoid muscle attaches. [ MP:0004353 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]

Synonyms: deltoid eminence deltoid tuberosity deltoid impression tuberositas deltoidea humeri crista ventralis deltoid crest deltoid tuberosity of humerus tuberositas deltoidea (corpus humeri) tuberositas deltoidea

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Term information

Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

latin term
tuberositas deltoidea [ FMA:TA FMA:23418 ]

depiction

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/HumerusFront.png

has related synonym

crista ventralis humeri

deltoid process

pectoral process

id

UBERON:0002498

taxon notes

In basal Tetrapodomorph lineages often the deltoid process and the pectoral processes are separate and thus should not be made exact synonyms to the deltopectoral crest.[PHENOSCAPE:ad]