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That of tho anterior inusclo is funicular, an. 1 receives, before its 

 insertion, a digitation from the splouius (fig. 100, 10), ami another from tlio 

 mastoido-humeralis (fig. 100). 



F'wtl <itt<irlniinit#. The two fleshy portions of the small complcxuH have 

 tlieir fixed insertion in common with the anterior portion of the great cum- 

 pluxns : 1, On the transverse processes of the two h'rst dorsal vertel>ne, 

 through the medium of aponeurotic digitations which servo as an origin to 

 the last-named muscle ; 2, On the articular tubercles of the cervical vertebra), 

 by the inferior extremity of their component fasciculi. 



Movable attachments. The terminal tendon of the posterior muscle 

 passes to the mastoid process of the temporal bone. The anterior passi - t 

 the transverse process of the atlas. 



Fig. 103. 



I.ATKHAI, VIEW OF Tin: NKCK ; MIDDLE I.AVER OF MUSCLES. 



1, Funicular portion of the cervical ligament; 2, Complexus major; 3, Complexus 

 minor; 4, Rectus capitis posticus major; 5, Rectus capitis pnstims minor; 6, 

 Stylo-maxillaris ; 7, Carotid artery ; 8, Pneumogastric nerve and branch of 

 sympathetic; 9, Longus colli; 10, Recurrent nerve; 11, Inferior scalenus; 12, 

 Spinalis, or trausversalis colli ; 13, Incision through rhomboideus and trapezius ; 

 14, Trachea. 



Relations. Outwardly, with the splenius ; inwardly, with the groat 

 complexus and the oblique muscles of the head. The tendon of the posterior 

 fleshy portion is covered by the mastoid aponeurosis of the mastoido- 

 hnmeralis. 



Action. The small complexus inclines to ita side the head and upper 

 part of the neck. It also acts as an extensor of the head. 1 



1 Bourgelat has described, by the name of Jong transrcrxal, the anterior portion of tin's 

 muscle, and attached it to the po.-4erior portion of the *]<]< uins. \\Y do not know 

 where to find one or otli<-r of the.-e in th<- crude drMTiptinn of l.nfo.-M- ;m.l N'itct. (iirurd 

 considered them, like ourselves, as a single muscle, \\liich ]\<- d. >i^nates tlie </;.. 

 iiHiff'iiilinx. Bigot lias united them with the anterior jKirtion of tho <?riit coiaplcxus and 

 the foremost fasciculi of the short transverse muscle (inferior limncli of tlie ilio-^pinnlis), 

 to make his long transversal ; in doin.t; so In- 1ms only complicated tlieir description. 

 These two muscular fasciculi, being, to our vii w, exactly n-pri-i nied. tlie posterior, at 



