The bullet tore through my voice box and larynx before lodging itself in my trapezius.
Also, he lifted weights with his teeth to bulk up his neck and trapezius muscles.
Bradford inserts a portion of the trapezius into the humeral insertion of the deltoid.
In time other muscles compensate in part for the loss of the trapezius.
The next muscles to become stiff and painful are those of the neck, especially the sterno-mastoid and trapezius.
A not infrequent accompaniment is a shrug of one or both shoulders, due to synergic contraction of the trapezius.
1704, from Modern Latin trapezius (musculus), masc. adjective from trapezium (see trapezium).