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Prevertebral muscles

Transverse section of body. Prevertebral fascia labeled in purple.

The anterior vertebral muscles.
Origin
Insertion
Artery
Nerve	C1-C8
Actions

The prevertebral muscles are the muscles located between the prevertebral fascia (older definition) and the vertebral column, i.e., the longus capitis ^[1] and longus colli^[1] muscles.

It also includes the recti capitis anterior and lateralis.^[2]

References

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v • d • e List of muscles of head and neck: the neck (TA A04.2, GA 4.387)

Cervical	CN VII (superficial, PC): platysma CN XI (deep): sternocleidomastoid C1-C6 (anterior): Prevertebral muscles: longus (capitis, colli) C3-C8 (lateral): scalene (anterior, medius, posterior)

Suboccipital	C1: rectus capitis posterior (major, minor) · obliquus capitis (inferior, superior) C1-C6 (anterior): Prevertebral muscles: rectus capitis (anterior, lateralis)

Suprahyoid	CN V3 (medial): mylohyoid · anterior belly of digastric CN VII (lateral): stylohyoid · posterior belly of digastric C1 (deep): geniohyoid

Infrahyoid/strap	C1: thyrohyoid C1-C3: sternohyoid · sternothyroid · omohyoid

Fasciae	Deep cervical fascia (Pretracheal fascia, Prevertebral fascia, Investing layer) · Carotid sheath · Alar fascia pharynx: Buccopharyngeal fascia · Pharyngobasilar fascia Palatine aponeurosis Pharyngeal raphe

Pharynx	pharyngeal constrictor (superior, middle, inferior) · longitudinal (stylopharyngeus, salpingopharyngeus)

Larynx	cricothyroid · cricoarytenoid (posterior, lateral) · arytenoid (oblique arytenoid/aryepiglottic, transverse arytenoid) · thyroarytenoid (vocal, thyroepiglottic)

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