medially
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When the rhomboids are contracted, your scapula moves medially, which can pull the shoulder and upper limb posteriorly.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Muscles acting across the shoulder will also pull the shoulder and lateral clavicle anteriorly and medially, causing the clavicle fragments to override.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The angle of the tendon through the trochlea means that contraction of the superior oblique rotates the eye medially.
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The flexor retinaculum is attached laterally to the trapezium and scaphoid bones, and medially to the hamate and pisiform bones.
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The dentary is an unornamented bone with the anterior half curving medially; the greatest height is anterior.
From A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas by Echols, Joan
