prevertebral muscle

One of the muscles deep to the prevertebral fascia on the anterior surface of the cervical and superior three thoracic vertebrae, symmetrically placed on each side of the median plane, including the longus colli, longus capitis, rectus capitis anterior, and rectus capitis lateralis muscles. innervated by anterior rami of cervical spinal nerves. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the prevertebral muscle is

One of the muscles deep to the prevertebral fascia on the anterior surface of the cervical and superior three thoracic vertebrae, symmetrically placed on each side of the median plane, including the longus colli, longus capitis, rectus capitis anterior, and rectus capitis lateralis muscles. innervated by anterior rami of cervical spinal nerves. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the prevertebral 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 prevertebral muscle connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of muscle of vertebral column.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: ventral ramus of spinal nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as flexor muscle of vertebral column and prevertebral muscle. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0008549, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: muscle of vertebral column.
• Attaches to: vertebra.
• subtype: longus capitis muscle, psoas major muscle and psoas minor muscle.
• Innervated by: ventral ramus of spinal nerve.

Questions

Where is the prevertebral 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 prevertebral muscle connect to?

A kind of: muscle of vertebral column.

Is the prevertebral 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.