longus capitis muscle

A muscle that arises by four tendinous slips from the transverse processes of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae and inserts into the inferior surface of the basilar part of the occipital bone.[WP,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the longus capitis muscle is

A muscle that arises by four tendinous slips from the transverse processes of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae and inserts into the inferior surface of the basilar part of the occipital bone.[WP,modified]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the longus capitis muscle is

It sits within the muscular system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What the longus capitis muscle connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of prevertebral muscle.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: nerve of cervical vertebra.

Also called

Also recorded as longus capitis, m. rectus capitis posterior, longus capitus muscle, musculus longus capitis and rectus capitis anticus major. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001563, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: prevertebral muscle.
• Innervated by: nerve of cervical vertebra.
• inserts into: basioccipital bone.
• originates from: transverse process of vertebra.

Questions

Where is the longus capitis muscle?

It sits within the muscular system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What does the longus capitis muscle connect to?

A kind of: prevertebral muscle.

Is the longus capitis muscle the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.