Trapezoid ligament

The trapezoid ligament, the anterior and lateral fasciculus, is broad, thin, and quadrilateral: it is placed obliquely between the coracoid process and the clavicle.

Trapezoid ligament
The left shoulder and acromioclavicular joints, and the proper ligaments of the scapula. (Trapezoid visible at center top.)
Glenoid fossa of right side.
Details
Fromcoracoid process (scapula)
Totrapezoid line (clavicle)
Identifiers
Latinligamentum trapezoideum
TA98A03.5.03.005
TA21748
FMA26030
Anatomical terminology

It is attached, below, to the upper surface of the coracoid process; above, to the oblique ridge on the under surface of the clavicle.

Its anterior border is free; its posterior border is joined with the conoid ligament, the two forming, by their junction, an angle projecting backward.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 315 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


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