See Also: suboccipital nerve(medicine)
suboccipital(medicine)
suboccipital region(medicine)
suboccipital muscles(medicine)
suboccipital decompression(medicine)
suboccipital triangle(medicine)
suboccipital neuralgia(medicine)
suboccipital neuritis(medicine)
suboccipital venous plexus(medicine)
suboccipital part of vertebral artery(medicine)

impinge (oh) and suboccipital nerve (medicine)


impinge (oh)



impinge on/upon / [impinge on/upon sb/sth] phr v
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: impingere, from pangere 'to fasten, drive in']
to have a harmful effect on someone or something
::Personal problems experienced by students may impinge on their work.
-- impingement n [U and C]

suboccipital nerve (medicine)


suboccipital nerve
Dorsal ramus of the first cervical nerve, passing through the suboccipital triangle and sending branches to the rectus capitis posterior major and minor, obliquus capitis superior and inferior, rectus capitis lateralis, and semispinalis capitis; the first cervical spinal nerve is generally considered to have only motor fibres, but the suboccipital nerve receives sensory fibres for proprioception via a communicating branch from the second cervical spinal nerve.

Synonym: nervus suboccipitalis.