name levator_costae_muscles namespace http://cytomer.bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de# parent autochthone_back_muscle parent flat_muscle child long_levator_costae_muscles child short_levator_costae_muscles label [de] Rippenheber annotationRemark [] dka label [en] levator costae muscles label [med] Musculi levatores costarum organNo [] 40054 ACC [] cy0046959 nameGermanSynonym [] Rippenheber speciesNo [] 86 comment [de] Sakrospinale autochthone Rückenmuskeln die als zusätzliche Rippenheber dienen; Funktion: sie ziehen den Wirbelkörper nach unten. Bei einseitiger Kontraktion bewirken sie eine Lateralflexion, bei beidseitiger Kontraktion richten sie die Wirbelsäule auf. comment [en] A series of 12 muscles on each side that arise from the transverse processes of the seventh cervical and upper 11 thoracic vertebrae, that pass obliquely downward and laterally to insert into the outer surface of the rib immediately below or in the case of the lowest four muscles of the series devide into two fasciculi of which one inserts as described and the other into the second rib below, and that raise the ribs increasing the volume of the thoracic cavity and extend, bend, and rotate the spinal column attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_thoracic_vertebra_III attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_thoracic_vertebra_X attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_thoracic_vertebra_VIII attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_cervical_vertebra_VII isPartOf muscle_of_thorax attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_thoracic_vertebra_IV attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_thoracic_vertebra_VII attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_thoracic_vertebra_V attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_thoracic_vertebra_II attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_thoracic_vertebra_VI hasPart long_levator_costae_muscles attachedToApproach costal_angle_II_-_XII hasPart short_levator_costae_muscles isPartOf autochthone_back_muscle attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_thoracic_vertebra_IX attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_thoracic_vertebra_XI attachedToOrigin transverse_process_of_thoracic_vertebra_I