Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Longus colli and longus capitis

Deep (prevertebral) muscles on the front of the cervical vertebrae, covered by the prevertebral layer of deep cervical fascia.

Key points

• Prevertebral muscles on the front of the cervical spine.
• Under the prevertebral fascia.
• Behind the carotid sheath, pharynx and oesophagus.
• Ventral-ramus neck muscles: ventral parts of cervical myotomes.
• Trunk muscles: from myotomes of the somites.
• Skeletal muscle: multinucleated, peripheral nuclei, striated.
• Epimysium → perimysium → endomysium.

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1622, 1640–1641, 1764
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 7, PDF pp. 108–109
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 8, PDF pp. 135–144

More from the head and neck

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• Mandibular nerve
• Masseter
• Maxilla
• Maxillary artery
• Maxillary nerve
• Medial pterygoid
• Medial rectus
• Medulla oblongata
• Midbrain
• Middle cerebral artery
• Muscles of facial expression

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