What is the Latin name of the long muscle of the neck?

In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the long muscle of the neck is called Musculus longus colli.

Which bones does the long muscle of the neck attach to?

Long muscle of the neck takes hold of Cervical vertebrae, Thoracic vertebrae and Atlas.

Where does the long muscle of the neck originate and insert?

Origin: Ventral faces of the vertebral bodies from the sixth thoracic forward through the cervical series. Insertion: Transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae and the ventral tubercle of the atlas, each bundle spanning a few segments.

What nerve supplies the long muscle of the neck?

Ventral rami of cervical and cranial thoracic spinal nerves.

Long muscle of the neck

Musculus longus colli

Muscle
Neck
Left
Dog

Flexes the neck ventrally.

About the long muscle of the neck of the dog

Long muscle of the neck is a muscle of the neck (neck), on the left side. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Musculus longus colli. You can turn it above, see it in place in the neck of the dog, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.

Where it runs from and to

A muscle is told apart from its neighbours by what it takes hold of at each end, which is also what decides what it does when it shortens.

Origin: Ventral faces of the vertebral bodies from the sixth thoracic forward through the cervical series.
Insertion: Transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae and the ventral tubercle of the atlas, each bundle spanning a few segments.
Action: Flexes the neck ventrally.
Nerve: Ventral rami of cervical and cranial thoracic spinal nerves.

Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the dog; the books it was checked against are listed below.

What it works on

Bones it takes hold of

Cervical vertebrae
Thoracic vertebrae
Atlas

Muscles and ligaments it works with

Longus capitis
Scalenus medius
Intertransversarii ventrales cervicis
Ventral longitudinal ligament

Terminology

English: Long muscle of the neck
Latin (NAV): Musculus longus colli
Status: A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria

References

Where to read this structure in full, and where the named parts above were read.

NAV 2017Myologia
Miller's Anatomy of the Dog, 5th ed.The Muscular System: muscles of the neck
Dyce, Sack & WensingThe neck, back and vertebral column of the dog and cat
Miller 2020 (book pass)ch. 6 The Muscular System, PDF p. 506

The long muscle of the neck in other animals

The same structure in the other animals in the Library, to compare.

Long muscle of the neck of the horse

Questions about the long muscle of the neck

What is the Latin name of the long muscle of the neck?: In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the long muscle of the neck is called Musculus longus colli.
Where is the long muscle of the neck of the dog?: Long muscle of the neck is a muscle of the neck (neck), on the left side.
Which bones does the long muscle of the neck attach to?: Long muscle of the neck takes hold of Cervical vertebrae, Thoracic vertebrae and Atlas.
Where does the long muscle of the neck originate and insert?: Origin: Ventral faces of the vertebral bodies from the sixth thoracic forward through the cervical series. Insertion: Transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae and the ventral tubercle of the atlas, each bundle spanning a few segments.
What nerve supplies the long muscle of the neck?: Ventral rami of cervical and cranial thoracic spinal nerves.
What does the long muscle of the neck do?: Flexes the neck ventrally.

See the long muscle of the neck inside the whole dog.

Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the dog around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.

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