Suboccipital muscles

Suboccipital muscles
Suboccipital muscles. (Rectus capitis lateralis is shaded.)
Latin	musculi suboccipitales
Gray's	subject #113 395
Origin
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Artery
Nerve
Actions

Suboccipital muscles are a group of muscles defined by their location to the occiput.

Many are innervated by the suboccipital nerve.

See also

• Suboccipital triangle

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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): platysma CN XI (deep): sternocleidomastoid Vertebral: C1-C6 (anterior): longus (capitis, colli) Vertebral: C3-C8 (lateral): scalene (anterior, medius, posterior) Suboccipital rectus capitis posterior (major, minor) · obliquus capitis (inferior, superior) Vertebral: C1-C6 (anterior): 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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