trapezius muscle

collocation in English

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trapezius
noun[C]
uk
/trəˈpiː.zi.əs/us
/trəˈpiː.zi.əs/
a large muscle between the neck ...
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muscle
noun
uk
/ˈmʌs.əl/us
/ˈmʌs.əl/
one of many tissues in the body that can tighten and relax to ...
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(Definition oftrapeziusandmusclefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Usually the sternocleidomastoid muscle or thetrapeziusmuscleis involved.
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The posterior border is convex backward and gives attachment to thetrapeziusmuscle.
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The ligamentum nuchae andtrapeziusmuscleattach to it.
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Weights are often used, either in the hand or as a bar braced across thetrapeziusmuscleor rear deltoid muscle in the upper back.
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It then passes through thetrapeziusmuscleand ascends to innervate the skin along the posterior part of the scalp to the vertex.
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When the legs have driven the bar as high as possible, the lifter pulls under the bar by violently shrugging (contracting) thetrapeziusmuscle(upper back).
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Damage results in an inability to shrug the shoulders or raise the arm above the head (e.g., for brushing hair), particularly due to compromisedtrapeziusmuscleinnervation.
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The suprascapular artery gives of the acromial branch, which pierces thetrapeziusmuscleand supplies the skin over the acromion, anastomosing with the thoracoacromial artery.
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Thetrapeziusmuscleis tested by asking the patient to shrug their shoulders with and without resistance.
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The spinal accessory nerve provides motor innervation from the central nervous system to two muscles of the neck: the sternocleidomastoid muscle and thetrapeziusmuscle.
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Thetrapeziusmuscleis unable to hold up the distal fragment owing to the weight of the upper limb, and thus the shoulder droops.
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It is performed from the front of the opponent by grabbing the opponent by the collar, behind the neck, or behind thetrapeziusmuscle.
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It lies deep to thetrapeziusmuscleand can be palpated as firm round muscle mass just lateral to the cervical spinous processes.
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It lies deep to the semispinalis capitis and trapezius muscles.
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The narrower the grip the more the trapezius muscles are exercised, as opposed to the deltoids.
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It is named after the (upper fibres of the) trapezius muscles, the muscle it was designed to train, with shoulder shrugs.
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