Any of the three pairs of muscles in the lateral neck, namely the scalenus anterior, scalenus medius, and scalenus posterior. They are innervated by the spinal nerves C4-C8[WP]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalene_muscles ]
Synonyms: scalenus muscle scalene muscles
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- Wikipedia:Scalene_muscles
- FMA:64829
- NCIT:C33517
- SCTID:244843003
- UMLS:C0448350 (ncithesaurus:Scalene_Muscle)
has related synonym
lateral cervical muscles
scaleni
scaleneus
scalenus
lateral vertebral muscle
scalenes
lateral cervical muscle
scalene muscle
m scalenus
Term relations
Subclass of:
- muscle of neck
- muscle of vertebral column
- has muscle insertion some rib 1
- has muscle insertion some rib 2
- has muscle origin some cervical vertebra