muscle of neck

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 human body.

Where the muscle of neck is

It sits in the neck, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the muscle of neck connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of 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, musculature, musculature of neck and neck.
• A kind of: skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
• subtype: muscle of larynx, rectus capitis anterior, rectus capitis lateralis muscle, rectus capitis posterior major, rectus capitis posterior minor and scalene muscle, and 4 more.
• Supplied by: occipital artery.

Questions

Where is the muscle of neck?

It sits in the neck, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the muscle of neck connect to?

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

Is the muscle of neck 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.