Definitionn. either of two flat muscles that extend from the upper vertebrae to the base of the skull and serve to rotate or flex or extend the head and neck
Last update: June 13, 2015
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There remain for us, accordingly, to examine, at the present juncture, but the omo-trachelian, levator anguli scapulæ, and splenius muscles. [Please select]
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This latter relation is also found in the ox, but the splenius in this case is but slightly developed. [Please select]
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When the splenius contracts it extends the head and neck, while inclining them to its own side. [Please select]
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In the dog and cat they are: a portion of a muscle which we do not normally meet with in man--the _omo-trachelian_--then in a decreasing extent: supraspinatus, levator anguli scapulæ and splenius. [Please select]
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These separate superior attachments, and the division of the muscle which results, have caused the splenius to be regarded as formed of two portions: splenius of the head, and splenius of the neck. [Please select]
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