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  2. Accessory nerve - Wikipedia

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    The spinal component of the accessory nerve provides motor control of the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles. [8] The trapezius muscle controls the action of shrugging the shoulders, and the sternocleidomastoid the action of turning the head. [8] Like most muscles, control of the trapezius muscle arises from the opposite side of the ...

  3. Accessory nerve disorder - Wikipedia

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    There are several options of treatment when iatrogenic (i.e., caused by the surgeon) spinal accessory nerve damage is noted during surgery. For example, during a functional neck dissection that injures the spinal accessory nerve, injury prompts the surgeon to cautiously preserve branches of C2, C3, and C4 spinal nerves that provide supplemental innervation to the trapezius muscle. [3]

  4. Transverse cervical artery - Wikipedia

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    The dorsal scapular artery (or descending scapular artery [3]) is a blood vessel which supplies the levator scapulae, rhomboids, [4] and trapezius. It most frequently arises from the subclavian artery (the second or third part), [ 3 ] but a quarter of the time it arises from the transverse cervical artery. [ 5 ]

  5. Trapezius - Wikipedia

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    The trapezius [4] is a large paired trapezoid-shaped surface muscle that extends longitudinally from the occipital bone to the lower thoracic vertebrae of the spine and laterally to the spine of the scapula. It moves the scapula and supports the arm. The trapezius has three functional parts: an upper (descending) part which supports the weight ...

  6. Levator scapulae muscle - Wikipedia

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    Levator scapulae forms part of the latter group together with rhomboid major, rhomboid minor, serratus anterior, and trapezius. The trapezius evolved separately, but the other three muscles in this group evolved from the first eight or ten ribs and the transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae (homologous to the ribs).

  7. Investing layer of deep cervical fascia - Wikipedia

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    It surrounds the neck like a collar, it splits around the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the trapezius muscle. It is attached as; Posteriorly - Ligamentum nuchae; Anteriorly - Attached to the hyoid bone; Superiorly - (from backwards to forwards); External occipital protuberance and superior nuchal line of occipital bone; Mastoid process of ...

  8. Posterior triangle of the neck - Wikipedia

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    Apex: Union of the sternocleidomastoid and the trapezius muscles at the superior nuchal line of the occipital bone. Anteriorly: Posterior border of the sternocleidomastoideus. Posteriorly: Anterior border of the trapezius. Inferiorly: Middle one third of the clavicle. Roof: Investing layer of the deep cervical fascia. Floor: (From superior to ...

  9. Nuchal lines - Wikipedia

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    To it is attached, the splenius capitis muscle, the trapezius muscle, [1] and the occipitalis. [2] From the external occipital protuberance a ridge or crest, the external occipital crest also called the median nuchal line, often faintly marked, descends to the foramen magnum, and affords attachment to the nuchal ligament.