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Encyclopedia > Suboccipital triangle
Suboccipital triangle
Deep muscles of the back. (Triangle is not labeled, the three muscles composing the triangle are visible at upper left, at the neck.)
Posterior atlantoöccipital membrane and atlantoaxial ligament. (Triangle is not labeled, but region is visible.)
Gray's subject #116 402
Dorlands/Elsevier t_17/12821203

The suboccipital triangle is a region of the neck bounded by the following three muscles: Image File history File links Gray305. ... Elseviers logo. ... A human neck. ...

  • Rectus capitis posterior major - above and medially
  • Obliquus capitis superior - above and laterally
  • Obliquus capitis inferior - below and laterally

It is covered by a layer of dense fibro-fatty tissue, situated beneath the Semispinalis capitis. The Semispinalis capitis (Complexus) is situated at the upper and back part of the neck, beneath the Splenius, and medial to the Longissimus cervicis and capitis. ...


The floor is formed by the posterior occipito-atlantal membrane, and the posterior arch of the atlas. In a cervical vertebra, the posterior arch forms about two-fifths of the circumference of the ring: it ends behind in the posterior tubercle, which is the rudiment of a spinous process and gives origin to the Recti capitis posteriores minores. ... First cervical vertebra, or Atlas In anatomy, the Atlas (C1) is the topmost (first) cervical vertebra of the spine. ...


In the deep groove on the upper surface of the posterior arch of the atlas are the vertebral artery and the first cervical or suboccipital nerve. The vertebral arteries are branches of the subclavian arteries. ... The first spinal nerve, the suboccipital nerve exits the spinal cord between the skull and the first cervical vertebra, the atlas. ...


See also

occipital artery ... The greater occipital nerve is a spinal nerve arising between the first and second cervical vertebrae, along with the lesser occipital nerve. ... The lesser occipital nerve is a spinal nerve arising between the first and second cervical vertebrae, along with the greater occipital nerve. ...

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This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained herein may be outdated. Please edit the article if this is the case, and feel free to remove this notice when it is no longer relevant. The State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, better known as SUNY Downstate Medical Center, is an academic medical center and is the only one of its kind in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... An illustration from the 1918 edition Henry Grays Anatomy of the Human Body, commonly known as Grays Anatomy, is an anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on human anatomy. ...



 

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