MUSCLES OF THE TRUNK. 198 



6. Transverse Spinous Munch- nf the Neck. (Fig. 104, 4.) 



iiy;//.--. Short .spinous Buurgelat. Dorao-spinalis Girard. (Spinalis colli 

 Pcrcicall. Transversal it colli of Man.) 



Situation. Between the great complexus and the cervical ligament, on 

 the himiiue of the last five vertebrae of the neck. 



/'/;// Sinn-tare Attachments. This muscle, a continuation in the 

 cervical region of that of the back and loins, is generally formed of five 

 thick and short fasciculi, strongly aponeurotic, directed forwards, upwards, 

 anil inwards. 



Tin so fasciculi, attached by their posterior extremities; fixed insertion to 

 the rive last articular tubercles of the cervical region, are fixed by their 

 anterior or superior extremities movable insertion into the sixth, fifth, fourth, 

 third, and second spinous processes of that region. 



Relations. Outwards, with the great complexns ; inwards, with the 

 superior branch of the ilio-spinalis and the cervical ligament. By its 

 anterior face, with the laminae of the cervical vertebras and the i liter lame liar 

 ligaments. 



Action. An extensor and flexor of the cervical spine. 



7. Intertransversal Muscles of the Neck. (Fig. 104, 9.) 



myiits. Intercemcals Girard. (The interlransversales of Man. Not mentioned 

 t'V IVrcivall.) 



These are six small, short, and very tendinous fasciculi, each of which 

 is doubled into two secondary fasciculi, a superior and inferior. They are 

 lodged in the lateral excavations comprised \\ithin the transverse and artic- 

 ular processes of the cervical vertebrae, and are carried from one vertebra 

 to another, except from the first to the second. Covered by the cervical 

 attachments of the majority of the muscles of the neck, they cover the 

 brae to which they are attached, as well as the vertebral arteries and 

 veins, and the intervertebral foramen. They incline the neck to the side. 



8. Great Oblique Muscle of the Head. (Fig. 104, 7.) 

 Synonyms. Axoido-atloideus Girard. (Obliijuus caj>itu inferior Percirall.) 



"ii Situation. A short, thick, and broad muscle, oblique 

 forwards and outwardly, and applied to the superior face of the two first 

 vertebrae of the neck. 



Struct n,:- tmd Attachments. Its fibres are nearly all fleshy, parallel to 



each other, and Jonger as they become superficial ; they are attached by their 



rior extremity fixed insertion to the external face of the spinous 



ss of the axis, and by their anterior extremity movable insertion to the 



rior surface of the transverse process of the atlas. 



Relation*. Outwards, with the splenius, the great and little complexus ; 

 inwards, with the atlas, the axis, and the ntlo-axoid articulation ; above, 



least, by the tmall complexus of anthropotoniisfcj, we have thought it proper to gi\e it 

 .i., With regard to the miihclo generally termed the nimll cmnpUrttt by 



i'".llo\\ in- the i/xample of Meckel we will describe it as a j> 

 .iur straight imiM-lr of th>- head. 



' isall iiiiine.s (Jininl'.s nsi>iili>-iM-rii>ittili* li>mj'i* the u ttMBBlmN minor," and hid 

 dorto mtutuidi us tin- " trachelo-mMtoideot." I.eyh, following <.ii.ml, designates the 

 liitt.-r iini.vii- th<' dorwMMMfotfdmu.) 



