Splenius muscles
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- Splenius capitis muscleSplenius capitis muscleThe splenius capitis is a broad, straplike muscle in the back of the neck. It pulls on the base of the skull from vertebrae in the neck and upper thorax.-Origin, insertion, and Innervation:...
- Splenius cervicis muscleSplenius cervicis muscleThe splenius cervicis is a muscle in the back of the neck. It arises by a narrow tendinous band from the spinous processes of the third to the sixth thoracic vertebrae; it is inserted, by tendinous fasciculi, into the posterior tubercles of the transverse processes of the upper two or three...