Anatom3DArm (upper arm)
Brachium · Paže
Muscles
Looks like
One thick bone between shoulder and elbow, wrapped by biceps in front and triceps behind.
What it does
Positions the hand, lifts and pushes.
Keeping it well
Strength work both sides. The nerve in the groove can be squashed by sleeping on the arm.
Its parts
- Skin of arm
- Humerus
- Biceps brachii
- Brachialis
- Triceps brachii
- Brachial artery
- Cephalic & basilic veins
- Radial nerve
- Median nerve
- Ulnar nerve
- Right cephalic vein
- Right medial brachial vein
- Right anconeus
- Left cephalic vein
- Left coracobrachialis
- Left anconeus
- Anterior circumflex humeral vein
- Coracobrachialis
- Medial brachial vein
- Median cubital vein
Related conditions
- Achondroplasia
- Acromegaly
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Cubital tunnel syndrome
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
- Lyme disease
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Rabies
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sepsis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Shoulder dislocation
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency