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Deep muscles of the back, posterior view

Deep muscles of the back, posterior view — Muscles
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After Gray's Anatomy (1918); modernized for Neuro.Wiki

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Deep muscles of the back, posterior view. Posterior view of the trunk.

Region
trunk
Structure
back
View
posterior
System
muscle, bone
Focus
suboccipital muscles, erector spinae, transversospinales, quadratus lumborum

Structures labelled on this plate

  • Occipital bone
  • RECT. POST. MAJOR
  • RECT. POST. MINOR
  • OBLIQ. CAPITIS SUPER
  • OBLIQ. INFER
  • OBLIQ. CAPIT. SUPR
  • RECT.POST.MINOR
  • RECT.POST.MAJOR
  • SEMISPINALIS CAPITIS
  • LONGISSIMUS CAPITIS
  • Multifidus
  • SEMISPINALIS CERV
  • First thoracic vertebra
  • MUSCULARIS CERV
  • ILIOCOSTALIS CERV
  • First rib
  • Second rib
  • Third rib
  • SEMI-SPINALIS DORSI
  • SPINALIS DORSI
  • LONGISSIMUS DORSI
  • ILIOCOSTALIS DORSI
  • ILIOCOSTALIS LUMBORUM
  • First lumbar vertebra
  • Quadratus lumborum
  • SACROSPINALIS
  • SACRO- SPINALIS
  • Crest of Ilium
  • First sacral vertebra
  • Sacrum

Source: After Gray's Anatomy (1918). Public domain (Gray's Anatomy, 1918), modernized rendering.