radial fossa of humerus

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Introduction

A shallow depression on the anterior aspect of the distal humerus, above the capitulum of the humerus & lateral to the coronoid fossa. It receives the margin of the head of the radius when the elbow is flexed.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
  2. Human Anatomy and Physiology, Alexander P Spence & Elliot B. Mason, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc, 1979.