muscle of neck in dogs

Any muscle that is part of the cervical (neck) region. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the muscle of neck is

Any muscle that is part of the cervical (neck) region. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the muscle of neck is

It sits in the neck, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the muscle of neck connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of craniocervical region, craniocervical region musculature and musculature of neck, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: occipital artery.

Also called

Also recorded as muscle organ of neck, muscle organ of neck (volume), neck (volume) muscle organ, neck muscle and neck muscle organ. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002377, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: craniocervical region, craniocervical region musculature, musculature of neck and neck.
• A kind of: skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
• subtype: muscle of larynx, prevertebral muscle of neck, rectus capitis lateralis muscle, scalenus medius, scalenus posterior and sphincter colli superficialis muscle, and 2 more.
• Supplied by: occipital artery.

Questions

Where is the muscle of neck?

It sits in the neck, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the muscle of neck connect to?

Part of: craniocervical region, craniocervical region musculature, musculature of neck and neck.

Is the muscle of neck the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.