A study on axillary artery and its branching pattern among the population of West Bengal, India.

Variations in the branching pattern of the axillary artery have paramount importance among anatomists, surgeons and radiologists. A study was conducted on this topic in Kolkata, among the people of West Bengal, a state of India. The upper limbs of 70 cadavers were dissected bilaterally at the Department of Anatomy, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, between 2008 and 2011.

Role of scaphoid in the abduction and adduction movements of wrist joint.

Being a carpal bone scaphoid has an important role in wrist movements. Wrist joint is a synovial modified ellipsoid joint where movements like flexion, extension and adduction, abduction take place around two axes (transverse and anteroposterior). These movements at the wrist joint are associated with considerable range of movements at the midcarpal joint, as same group of muscles act on both of these joints.