LATERAL CERVICAL GROUP. 185 



SERRATUS MAGNUS. 

 (PL. HL 10.) 



The cervical portion of the serratus magnus will be described 

 -with the costal portion. (See costal region.) 



SPLENIUS. 



{Cervico-mastoideus. ) 



(PL. III. 7.) 



This is a large muscle included between the funicular part of 

 the Ugamentum nuchse, and the vertebrae below. It is broad. 



Fig. 73. 

 Lateral cervical muscles-deep layer, a, Complexus major; 6, Trachelo-mastoideus ; 

 eccc, Intertransversalis eolH- 



liat, and triangular ; aponeurotic only at its periphery, its belly is 

 made up of large fleshy bundles, which are directed obliquely 

 forwards and upwards to the head and first cervical vertebra. 



Attachments.—To the funicular portion of the ligamentum 

 nuchse, the transverse processes of the third, fourth, and fifth 

 cervical, and the spines of the first four or five dorsal vertebrae ; 

 to the crest and mastoid ridge, in union with the tendon of the 

 trachelo-mastoideus, and to the wing of the atlas, aloug with the 

 common tendon of the trachelo-mastoideus and the levator humeri. 



