splenius

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002252

A superficial postvertebral muscle innervated by the posterior ramus of the cervical spinal nerve with origins in the upper thoracic and lower cervical spinous processes whose actions are to extend and ipsilaterally rotate the head and neck. Examples: splenius capitis, splenius cervicis. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splenius http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]

Synonyms: splenius muscle

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FMA:77180
EMAPA:37701 (MA:th)
UMLS:C1185944 (ncithesaurus:Splenius)
Wikipedia:Splenius
NCIT:C53177
MA:0002382

Subsets

uberon_slim

UBPROP 0000012

Muscle of neck in MA

has obo namespace

uberon

UBERON:0002252

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Splenius

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Subclass of:

muscle of back
muscle of vertebral column
overlaps some dorsal part of neck
innervated_by some dorsal ramus of spinal nerve