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Definition of: splenius
(splē′nē·əs) noun plural ·ni·i (-nē·ī) Anat.
A large, thick muscle of the back of the neck, extending in two parts from the skull to the vertebral spines in the cervical and upper thoracic region. [<NL <Gk. splēnion a bandage]
—sple′ni·al adjective
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