The Muscles 95 
bauchiger Nackenmuskel, Splenius capitis). It 
springs, by separate points, from the dorsal pro- 
cesses of the four anterior body vertebre and the 
six posterior neck vertebre; it is convex on its 
dorsal, weakly concave on its ventral surface; it 
leads cephalad asa short, strong tendon by which it 
is attached to the angle between the upper hinder 
border of the skull, z.e. to the superior and lateral 
occipital region. 
Squamoso-cervicalis Medialis (Kopfbauchmuskel 
[Splenius] or durchflochtener Muskel [Complexus], 
Trachelo-mastoideus, Complexus). This muscle 
lies laterad and ventrad to the preceding and is at 
times partly covered by it in its posterior half. It 
arises from separate heads from the spinal pro- 
cesses of the two anterior and six posterior cervical 
vertebrae; beginning caudad, thin and sharp, it 
gradually becomes thicker as it passes cephalad 
until it becomes partially tendinous and inserts 
itself on the hinder border of the squamosal, lat- 
erad to the occipito-cervicalis medialis muscle. 
Epistropheo-vertebralis (Splenius colli). This 
muscle springs from the spinous processes of the 
most anterior three body vertebre and the last 
cervical vertebra; it receives fibers from the articu- 
lar processes and intermediate parts of the six 
posterior cervical vertebree and is inserted on the 
second cervical vertebra. 
Collo-squamosus (Splenius capitis, Nackenwar- 
zenmuskel, Trachelo-mastoideus). Springs from 
