Suboccipital nerve
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| Nerve: Suboccipital nerve | ||
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| Median sagittal section through the occipital bone and first three cervical vertebrae. (Suboccipital nerve labeled at center right.) | ||
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| Latin | nervus suboccipitalis | |
| Gray's | subject #210 925 | |
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| MeSH | [1] | |
The first spinal nerve, the suboccipital nerve exits the spinal cord between the skull and the first cervical vertebra, the atlas.
It supplies muscles around the suboccipital triangle including the rectus capitis posterior major, obliquus capitis superior, and obliquus capitis inferior.
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Upper part of medulla spinalis and hind- and mid-brains; posterior aspect, exposed in situ.
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