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Intertransversarii muscle
Intertransversarii muscles
Latin	musculi intertransversarii
Gray's	subject #115 401
Origin:	Transverse process
Insertion:	Transverse process above
Artery:
Nerve:	Anterior rami of spinal nerves
Action:	Lateral flexion of trunk
Dorlands/Elsevier	m_22/12549464

The Intertransversarii are small muscles placed between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.

Contents 1 Divisions 1.1 Cervical 1.2 Thoracic 1.3 Lumbar 2 Innervation 3 References 4 External links

In the cervical region they are best developed, consisting of rounded muscular and tendinous fasciculi, and are placed in pairs, passing between the anterior and the posterior tubercles respectively of the transverse processes of two contiguous vertebræ, and separated from one another by an anterior primary division of the cervical nerve, which lies in the groove between them.

• The muscles connecting the anterior tubercles are termed the Intertransversarii anteriores.
• Those between the posterior tubercles are termed the Intertransversarii posteriores.

Both sets are supplied by the anterior divisions of the spinal nerves.

There are seven pairs of these muscles, the first pair being between the atlas and axis, and the last pair between the seventh cervical and first thoracic vertebræ.

In the thoracic region they are present between the transverse processes of the lower three thoracic vertebræ, and between the transverse processes of the last thoracic and the first lumbar.

In the lumbar region they are arranged in pairs, on either side of the vertebral column,

• one set occupying the entire interspace between the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebræ, the Intertransversarii laterales.
• the other set, Intertransversarii mediales, passing from the accessory process of one vertebra to the mammillary of the vertebra below.

The Intertransversarii laterales are supplied by the anterior divisions, and the Intertransversarii mediales by the posterior divisions of the spinal nerves.

The intertransversarii muscle is primarily innervated by anterior rami of spinal nerves, but partly also from posterior rami ^[1].

1. ^ videohelp.com

• -107347889 at GPnotebook
• LUC intt
• Duke Orthopedics intertransversarii
• Intertransversarii at eMedicine Dictionary

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v • d • e List of muscles of torso
BACK	splenius (capitis, cervicis) - erector spinae (iliocostalis, longissimus, spinalis) - latissimus dorsi transversospinales: (semispinalis dorsi, semispinalis cervicis, semispinalis capitis, multifidus, rotatores) - interspinales - intertransversarii
SUBOCCIPITAL	rectus capitis posterior (major, minor) - obliquus capitis (inferior, superior)
CHEST	intercostales (external, internal, innermost) - subcostales - transversus thoracis - levatores costarum - serratus posterior (inferior, superior) - diaphragm
ABDOMEN	anterior/lateral wall: obliques (external, internal) - transversus abdominis - rectus abdominis - pyramidalis posterior wall: quadratus lumborum - psoas major/psoas minor - iliacus cremaster
PELVIS/FLOOR	levator ani (iliococcygeus, pubococcygeus, puborectalis) - coccygeus
PERINEUM	anal triangle: sphincter ani (externus, internus) superficial perineal pouch (superficial transverse perineal, bulbospongiosus, ischiocavernosus) deep perineal pouch (deep transverse perineal, sphincter urethrae membranaceae)