Transversospinales muscles
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| Section of the neck at about the level of the sixth cervical vertebra. Showing the arrangement of the fascia coli. | ||
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| Deep muscles of the back. | ||
| Latin | musculi transversospinales | |
| Gray's | subject #115 400 | |
| Origin: | transverse process | |
| Insertion: | spinous process | |
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| Nerve: | posterior branches | |
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| Dorlands/Elsevier | m_22/12551199 | |
The transversospinales muscles are a group of muscles of the human back. They include:
- semispinalis
- multifidus
- rotatores
- rotatores cervicis
- rotatores thoracis
- rotatores lumborum
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BACK: splenius: (capitis - cervicis) - erector spinae (iliocostalis - longissimus - spinalis) - latissimus dorsi
transversospinales: (semispinalis dorsi - semispinalis cervicis - semispinalis capitis - multifidus - rotatores) - interspinales - intertransversarii
SUBOCCIPITAL: rectus capitis posterior (major, minor) - obliquus capitis (inferior, superior)
CHEST: intercostales (external, internal, innermost) - subcostales - transversus thoracis - levatores costarum - serratus posterior (inferior, superior) - diaphragm
ABDOMEN: obliques (external, internal) - transversus abdominis - rectus abdominis - pyramidalis - cremaster - quadratus lumborum
PELVIS: levator ani (iliococcygeus, pubococcygeus, puborectalis) - coccygeus
PERINEUM: sphincter ani (externus, internus) - superficial perineal pouch (transversus perinei superficialis - bulbospongiosus - ischiocavernosus) - deep perineal pouch (transversus perinei profundus, sphincter urethrae membranaceae)
