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Rotator cuff

The group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilise the shoulder. The four muscles of the rotator cuff, along with the teres major, the coracobrachialis muscle and the deltoid, make up the seven scapulohumeral (those that connect to the humerus and scapula and act on the glenohumeral joint) muscles of the human body.

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