Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun splenius_muscle

1 sense of splenius muscle

Sense 1
splenius, splenius muscle -- (either of two flat muscles that extend from the upper vertebrae to the base of the skull and serve to rotate or flex or extend the head and neck)
       => skeletal muscle, striated muscle -- (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)