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Latest revision as of 16:21, 20 August 2012
Template:Infobox Nerve Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
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.
See also
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Upper part of medulla spinalis and hind- and mid-brains; posterior aspect, exposed in situ.
