Teres minor muscle

The Teres Minor (Latin for " small round muscle " or " small round muscle ") is a skeletal muscle and is located in humans on the back of the body in animals at the back of the shoulder joint. He is partially (Human) or completely (animals) covered by the deltoid muscle. Combined with the supraspinatus, infraspinatus and subscapularis muscle it forms in humans, the rotator cuff, which keeps the head of the humerus in the glenoid fossa. The Teres Minor limited to the teres major gaps in the armpit.

Function

The teres minor is responsible for adduction (ie, re- approach of the bent arm on the body), external rotation and retroversion (ie stretching the arm to the rear) of the upper arm.

In animals, it acts as a flexor of the shoulder joint.