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... > Musculoskeletal System > Muscles > Muscle, Striated > Muscle, Skeletal > Back Muscles > Paraspinal Muscles
... > Tissues > Muscles > Muscle, Striated > Muscle, Skeletal > Back Muscles > Paraspinal Muscles

Preferred term

Paraspinal Muscles  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Deep Muscles of the Back
  • Intrinsic Muscles of the Back

Scope note

  • Deep muscles in the BACK whose function is to extend and rotate the SPINE and maintain POSTURE. It consists splenius, semispinalis, multifidus, rotatores, interspinales, intertransversarii and sacrospinalis.

History note

  • 2014

In other languages

  • paraspinaaliset lihakset

    Finnish

  • selkärangan viereiset lihakset
  • selkärangan vieressä olevat lihakset
  • Paraspinal muskulatur

    Swedish

  • Djup ryggmuskulatur
  • Djupa ryggmuskler
  • Multifider
  • Paraspinala muskler
  • Rotatores
  • Semispinalis
  • Splenius

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D064170

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