used as combining form of SUBSCAPULARIS, as in subscapulo- -capsularis, -hyoideus muscle (see quots.).
1831. Youatt, Horse, 119. The subscapulo hyoideus, from under the shoulder-blade, to the body of the os hyoides.
1873. Quain’s Elem. Anat. (ed. 8), I. 203. A small additional muscle … passing from the surface of the subscapularis over the capsular ligament,… the subscapulo-capsularis of Wenzel Gruber.
