Deep transverse perineal muscle

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Deep transverse perineal muscle
Muscles of the female perineum. (Transversus perinei visible at center right.)
Muscles of male perineum. (Transversus perinei visible at center right.)
Latin	musculus transversus perinei profundus
Gray's	subject #120 429
Origin	inferior rami of the ischium
Insertion	its fellow of the opposite side
Artery:
Nerve:	pudendal nerve
Action:
Dorlands /Elsevier	m_22/12551254

The Transversus perinei profundus (or deep transverse perineal) arises from the inferior rami of the ischium and runs to the median line, where it interlaces in a tendinous raphé with its fellow of the opposite side.

It lies in the same plane as the Sphincter urethræ membranaceæ; formerly the two muscles were described together as the Constrictor urethrae.

Additional images

The superficial branches of the internal pudendal artery.

External links

• -697630643 at GPnotebook
• LUC dtp
• SUNY Figs 41:06-06 - "Muscles of the female urogenital diaphragm (deep perineal pouch) and structures located inferior to it."
• SUNY Anatomy Image 9159
• SUNY Anatomy Image 9180

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v • d • e List of muscles of torso
BACK	splenius (capitis, cervicis) - erector spinae (iliocostalis, longissimus, spinalis) - latissimus dorsi transversospinales: (semispinalis dorsi, semispinalis cervicis, semispinalis capitis, multifidus, rotatores) - interspinales - intertransversarii
SUBOCCIPITAL	rectus capitis posterior (major, minor) - obliquus capitis (inferior, superior)
CHEST	intercostales (external, internal, innermost) - subcostales - transversus thoracis - levatores costarum - serratus posterior (inferior, superior) - diaphragm
ABDOMEN	anterior/lateral wall: obliques (external, internal) - transversus abdominis - rectus abdominis - pyramidalis posterior wall: quadratus lumborum - psoas major/psoas minor - iliacus cremaster
PELVIS/FLOOR	levator ani (iliococcygeus, pubococcygeus, puborectalis) - coccygeus
PERINEUM	anal triangle: sphincter ani (externus, internus) superficial perineal pouch (superficial transverse perineal, bulbospongiosus, ischiocavernosus) deep perineal pouch (deep transverse perineal, sphincter urethrae membranaceae)

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