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Definition of Musculus scalenus
1. Noun. Any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musculus Scalenus
Literary usage of Musculus scalenus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1908)
"The scalenus anticus (musculus scalenus anterior) is a well- defined muscle which
is separated from the scalenus ..."
2. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1903)
"The scalenus medius (musculus scalenus medius) is a more powerful muscle than
the preceding. It springs from the posterior tubercles of all the cervical ..."
3. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"musculus scalenus Medius.—The scalenus medius is a more powerful muscle than the
scalenus anterior. It springs from the posterior tubercles of all the ..."
4. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"musculus scalenus Medius.—The scalenus medius is a more powerful muscle than the
scalenus anterior. It springs from the posterior tubercles of all the ..."
5. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1870)
"... and along the brachial plexus, ran obliquely outwards, in place of at once
passing inwards over the anterior surface of the musculus scalenus anticus, ..."
6. The Brain Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg, Rudolph Leonhard Tafel (1882)
"From the other side comes another branch from the region of the musculus scalenus.
At last the whole of this right trunk on its downward passage, ..."
7. Surgical diseases of the chest by Carl Beck (1907)
"posterior part of the subclavia near its lower border and close to the inner
margin of the musculus scalenus anticus. In its course, which at first is ..."
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