Paraspinal Muscles
"Paraspinal Muscles" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Deep muscles in the BACK whose function is to extend and rotate the SPINE and maintain POSTURE. It consists splenius, semispinalis, multifidus, rotatores, interspinales, intertransversarii and sacrospinalis.
| Descriptor ID |
D064170
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.633.567.175.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Paraspinal Muscles- Paraspinal Muscles
- Muscle, Paraspinal
- Muscles, Paraspinal
- Paraspinal Muscle
- Deep Muscles of the Back
- Intrinsic Muscles of the Back
Sacrospinalis Iliocostalis- Sacrospinalis Iliocostalis
- Iliocostali, Sacrospinalis
- Iliocostalis, Sacrospinalis
- Sacrospinalis Iliocostali
- Sacrospinalis Longissimus
- Longissimus, Sacrospinalis
- Sacrospinalis Spinalis
- Sacrospinalis Spinali
- Spinali, Sacrospinalis
- Spinalis, Sacrospinalis
Intertransversales- Intertransversales
- Intertransversale
- Intertransversarii
- Intertransversarius
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