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DISSECTION OF THE BACK. 



of the spine cutaneous brandies are furnished to the neck and the head by 

 the nerves that arc superficial to the semispinalis ; these cutaneous offsets 

 ascend to the surface through the splenius, the complexus, and trapezius 

 muscles, and are distributed as before seen (p. 354). In their course to 



Fig. 119. 



1. Suboccipital nerve (posterior branch). 



2. Inner piece of the posterior primary branch 

 of the second nerve. 



3. Inner piece of the third nerve. 



4. Inner piece of the fourth. 



And the remaining figures point to the inner 

 pieces of the respective nerves. 



DEEP DISSECTION OF THE BACK OF THE NECK. (Illustrations of Dissections.) 

 Muscles : Nerves : 



A. Rectus posticus major. 



B. Rictus poaticus minor. 

 c. Ohliquus inferior. 



D. Obliquus superior. 



E. Splenius capitis. 



P. Complexus, cut across. 

 G. Sernispinalis olli. 

 Arteries : 



a. Occipital, and b, its cervical branch. 

 c. Vertebral artery, and d, its cervical branch. 

 e. Deep cervical artery of the subclaviau. 



the spine the nerves supply the surrounding muscles, viz., complexus, 

 semispinalis, multifidus spime, arid interspinales. 



The cutaneous branches of the second and third nerves reach the head, 

 and require a separate notice. 



That of the second nerve (fig. 119, 2 ), named great occipital, appearing 



