Latissimus Dorsi (Part 2)

Lati...broad, Latissimus...broadest. Dorsi...back.
So, latissimus dorsi is the broadest muscle on the back.

Other examples: condyloma lata...broad flat-surfaced condyloid lesions of the skin.

Fascia lata...that broad sheet-like fascia in the human thigh that "packs" the thigh muscles together and holds them in place.

ANOTHER ALLUSION FOR LATISSIMUS DORSI PEDICLE FLAPS.

Visualize a situation where humans were to possess boneless wings made totally of muscle.

Visualize those wings to be unattached to the upper limbs by way of impalement or structural support.

Visualize that the only attachment each wing has to the upper arm is on the inner surface of upper part of the upper arm somewhere in the armpit.

Visualize both boneless all-muscle wings to be folded in position on the back of the subject.

Visualize these strange wings to lie below the skin.

Visualize these wings to be immobile.
Visualize each wing to rotate about an axis or folcrum made of its attachment to the upper arm...its pedicle.

Visualize the surgeon expose this muscle by carefully dissecting it from its neighbours and covering skin.

Visualize the surgeon lift up the arm of the subject, then make this wing to swing in a forward direction about its pedicle or folcrum.

Visualize this forward swing under the armpit to bring this wing from the back to the front of the subject!

COPYRIGHT CLAUSE.
In my rendition on the latissimus dorsi muscle, I have for sakes of clarity of illustration, drawn two allusions:

First, between this wonderful muscle and the local hand fan.

Secondly, between the muscle and boneless immobile all-muscle subcutanous wings.

I have also made graphic allusions between the passive movements of this imaginary

wing and mobilizations made of this muscle by surgeons using latissimus dorsi pedicle flaps in constructive surgery of the perietal skull, the elbow, the anterior thoracic wall and the upper anterior abdominal wall.

To my knowledge, identical allusions have never been used of this muscle and its surgical mobilizations in medical literature in the past.

Accordingly, all acknowledgments due trail-blazers like this must be accorded this author when quoting these allusions.

Dr Tosin Akindele is a medical practitioner and public affairs analyst.