Tags: Anatomical Structure, Nerve.

The transverse cervical nerve (superficial cervical or cutaneous cervical) arises from the second and third cervical nerves turns around the posterior border of the sternocleidomastoideus about its middle and passing obliquely forward beneath the external jugular vein to the anterior border of the muscle it perforates the deep cervical fascia and divides beneath the Platysma into ascending and descending branches which are distributed to the antero-lateral parts of the neck.

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