The students were required to dissect a lateral half of a body; the first subject was a man about sixty years of age and that afternoon I began dissecting on a lower limb.

The levator claviculae muscle, present in 2-3% of people, originates on the transverse processes of the upper cervical vertebrae and is inserted in the lateral half of the clavicle.

It passes superiorly and posteriorly to insert into the lateral half of the inferior nuchal line.

This is due to the loss of innervation of the lateral 2 lumbricals of the hand and the lateral half of the flexor digitorum profundus which are supplied by the median nerve.

Flexor digitorum profundus (only the lateral half)

They ended up with three and a half good prints, clearly the thumb and the first two fingers of the right hand, with the extra bonus of a lateral half of the little finger.

The volar branch (ramus volaris; anterior branch) descends along the radial border of the forearm to the wrist, and supplies the skin over the lateral half of its volar surface.

It originates on the transverse processes of the upper cervical vertebrae and is inserted in the lateral half of the clavicle.

It is crossed in its upper half by a well-marked transverse ridge with a slight downward convexity, and in many cases a vertical median ridge divides it into two lateral halves.

In several species of Hedychium the lateral halves of the leaves when exposed to bright sunshine, bend downwards so that the lateral margins meet.