transversospinalis muscle

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Diagram of a lizard showing labeled trunk muscles, including longissimus cervicocapitis, longissimus dorsi, spinalis capitis, iliocostalis, transversospinalis, rectus capitis, costocervicalis, serratus ventralis, and external intercostals.

transversospinalis muscle

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Tetrapod musculature
…deepest set of muscles, the transversospinalis group, are short and run obliquely forward, over one to four vertebrae, from the transverse process of one vertebra to the lamina (the flat plate of bone at the base of the vertebral spine) of a more anterior vertebra. The transversospinalis group is particularly…
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…deepest set of muscles, the transversospinalis group, are short and run obliquely forward, over one to four vertebrae, from the transverse process of one vertebra to the lamina (the flat plate of bone at the base of the vertebral spine) of a more anterior vertebra. The transversospinalis group is particularly…
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