LATERAL CERVICAL GROUP. 



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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. in. 7.) 



This is a large muscle included between the funicular part of 

 the ligament um nuchae, and the vertebrae below. It is broad. 



Lateral cervical muscles — deep layer. 

 cccc, Intertransversalis eollL 



Fig. 73. 

 a, Complexus major; h, Trachelo-mastoideus ; 



Hut, 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 

 nuchas, 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 wiug of the atlas, along with the 

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



