Scalenes
- Type
- Group
- Japanese
- 斜角筋
- Reading
- しゃかくきん
- English
- Scalenes
- Latin
- Musculi scaleni
- Also called
- Scalene muscles
- Main functions
- Respiration / Neck movement
Connections
Origin
Insertion
Nerve supply
Passage for
Articles
- Scalene muscles: origins, insertions and cervical nerve supply of the anterior, middle and posterior scalenes
- Scalene muscles (anterior, middle, posterior): attachments, actions and the structures in the interscalene space
Also mentioned in
- Longus colli: three parts, action and nerve supply in 3D
- Levator scapulae: origin, insertion, action and nerve
- Cervical intertransversarii: anterior and posterior parts and action
- Cervical Vertebrae: The 7 Vertebrae, Related Muscles and Nerves
- Dorsal scapular nerve: position, course and muscles
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