rotator muscle

Definition

Any of a number of short transversospinal muscles chiefly developed in cervical, lumbar, and thoracic regions, arising from the transverse process of one vertebra and inserted into the root of the spinous process of the next two or three vertebrae above, with nerve supply from the dorsal branches of the spinal nerve, and whose actions rotate the vertebral column.

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Relations

Action

rotation of the torso

Sub-structures

• left rotatores
• right rotatores
• cervical rotator
• lumbar rotator
• thoracic rotator

Neighbouring structures

• interspinalis muscle
• intertransversarius muscle
• posterior suboccipital muscle

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Identifiers

TA2

2284

TA98

A04.3.02.210

FMA

23081

UBERON

0000951

Wikidata

Q838638