Anterior axillary fold
Front of right upper extremity. (Anterior axillary fold not labeled, but visible at right. )
Deep muscles of the chest and front of the arm, with the boundaries of the axilla.
Gray's	subject #289 1328
Dorlands/Elsevier	f_11/12371050

The lower border of Pectoralis major forms the rounded anterior axillary fold. surface anatomy of the Head and Neck ( Bones External occipital protuberance Superior Elsevier, the world's largest Publisher of Medical and Scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group The Pectoralis major (popularly known as pecs) is a thick fan-shaped muscle situated at the upper front ( Anterior) of the Chest wall

Some sources also include the pectoralis minor. The Pectoralis minor is a thin triangular muscle situated at the upper part of the Chest, beneath the Pectoralis major. ^[1]

See also

• underarm

References

External links

• anterior+axillary+fold at eMedicine Dictionary
• Description at umich.edu

The axilla (or armpit, underarm, or oxter) is the area on the human body directly under the joint where the Arm connects to the Shoulder Georgetown University is a Jesuit Private university located in Georgetown Washington D eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996 by Scott Plantz and Richard Lavely two medical doctors

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