 | Herbert Mayo - 1825 - 310 pages
...margin of the foramen magnum : the recti antici bend the head forward. The RECTUS CAPITIS LATERAHS rises from the transverse process of the atlas, and is inserted into the surface of the occipital beae without its condyle: it inclines the head laterally upon the atlas. A... | |
 | John Bell, Sir Charles Bell - 1829 - 656 pages
...shorter, has been named obliquus minor, the lower one obliquus major. CXXVII. The OBLIQUUS SUPERIOR arises from the transverse process of the atlas, and is inserted into the end of the lower occipital ridge. Its use, notwithstanding its oblique position, is not to turn, but... | |
 | Sir Erasmus Wilson - 1838 - 534 pages
...Rectus lateralis is interposed between the transverse process of the atlas and the occipital bone ; it arises from the transverse process of the atlas, and is inserted into the rough surface of the occipital bone, external to the condyle. The Obliquus superior arises from the... | |
 | Sir Erasmus Wilson - 1840 - 592 pages
...rectus lateralis is extended between the transverse process of the atlas and the occipital bone ; it arises from the transverse process of the atlas, and is inserted into the rough surface of the occipital bone, external to the condyle. The oblinuus superior arises from the... | |
 | 1851 - 1000 pages
...serves to bend the head forwards and to one side on the atlas. Rectus capitis lateralis, very short, arises from the transverse process of the atlas, and is inserted into the semilunar ridge or jugular process of the occipital bone which extends from the condyle to the rnastoid... | |
 | Sir Erasmus Wilson - 1851 - 480 pages
...lateralis is interposed between the transverse process of tlie atlas and the occipital bone ; it ariset from the transverse process of the atlas, and is inserted into the rough surface of the occipital bone, external to the condyle. The Obliquus inferior arises from the... | |
 | Carl Caspari - 1852 - 492 pages
...occiput at, and below the inferior semicircular ridge. It draws the head backwards. The obliquus superior arises from the transverse process of the atlas, and is inserted into the outer end of the inferior semicircular ridge of the occiput. It draws the head backwards. The obliquus... | |
 | Tobias Gibson Richardson - 1854 - 770 pages
...The SMALL ANTERIOR STRAIGHT MUSCLE OF THE HEAD (rectUS capitis anticus minor), very short and small, arises from the transverse process of the atlas, and is inserted into the basilar process of the occiput. USE. — The same as preceding. The LATERAL STRAIGHT MUSCLE OF THE... | |
 | Jonathan M. Allen - 1856 - 652 pages
...intersection, which gives attachment to many of its muscular fibres. RECTUS ANTICUS MINOR, Fig. 71 (4), arises' from, the transverse process of the atlas, and is inserted into the cuneiform Fig. 71. process of the occipital bone. It covers, in front, the articulation between the... | |
 | Richard Manning Hodges - 1858 - 280 pages
...and is inserted into the basilar process of the occipital bone. The RECTUS CAPITIS LATERALIS MUSCLE arises from the transverse process of the atlas, and is inserted into the rough surface of the occipital bone external to its condyle. The SCALENUS ANTICUS MUSCLE arises from... | |
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This small muscle springs from the transverse process of the atlas, and is inserted into the occipital bone in the interval between the curved lines. 
