English
Noun
splenius (plural splenii)
- (anatomy) A broad muscle running up the top part of the back of the neck.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 89:
- He caressed and parted [...] her lank loose, nearly lumbus-length (when she threw her head back as now) black silks as he tried to get at her bed-warm splenius.