Posterior view of suboccipital muscles, nerves, and vessels

About this plate

Posterior view of suboccipital muscles, nerves, and vessels. Posterior view of the neck.

Region

neck

Structure

posterior triangle

View

posterior

System

arteries, veins, cranial nerves, peripheral nerves, muscle, bone

Focus

suboccipital muscles, greater occipital nerve, vertebral artery, deep cervical vessels

Structures labelled on this plate

• Rectus capitis posterior major
• external occipital protuberance
• Occipitalis
• Semispinalis capitis
• great occipital nerve Semispinalis capitis ×
• suboccipital nerve
• muscular branch of vertebral art. + vertebral art. * *
• occipital art
• mening. branch of occipital art. vertebral art
• occipital vein
• vertebral vein
• Splenius capitis
• Splenius capitis ×
• descend. br. of occipital art
• posterior arch of atlas + *
• Longissimus capitis ×
• Obliquus capitis superior
• Obliquus capitis inferior
• deep cervical art
• dorsal br. of second cerv. nerve
• deep cervical vein
• Semispinalis capitis ×
• muscular br. of vertebral art. deep cervical art
• ascend. br. of transverse cervical art
• dorsal br. of third cerv. nerve
• accessory nerve
• Rhomboidei Trapezius
• descend. br. of transverse cervical art
• Rhomboidei ×
• dorsal. scapular nerve

Source: After Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy (1906-1911). Public domain (Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy, 1906-1911), modernized rendering.