Suboccipital nerve
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| Nerve: Suboccipital nerve | ||
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| Median sagittal section through the occipital bone and first three cervical vertebrae. (Suboccipital nerve labeled at center right.) | ||
| Latin | nervus suboccipitalis | |
| Gray's | subject #210 925 | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | n_05/12566792 | |
The first spinal nerve, the suboccipital nerve exits the spinal cord between the skull and the first cervical vertebra, the atlas.
It supplies muscles around the suboccipital triangle including the rectus capitis posterior major, obliquus capitis superior, and obliquus capitis inferior.
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| Spinal nerves | |
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ventral root - dorsal root - dorsal root ganglion - cauda equina - gray ramus communicans - white ramus communicans suboccipital posterior divisions: cervical (greater occipital, third occipital) - thoracic - lumbar - sacral - coccygeal anterior divisions: cervical plexus - brachial plexus - thoracic nerves: (intercostal - intercostobrachial - subcostal) - lumbosacral plexus | |
