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Phrenic nerve   Listen
Phrenic nerve

noun
1.
One of a pair of nerves that arises from cervical spinal roots and passes down the thorax to innervate the diaphragm and control breathing.  Synonym: nervus phrenicus.






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"Phrenic nerve" Quotes from Famous Books



... received in a groove formed for it in the pericardium, and is obliged to make a considerable turn outwards to go over the prominent part of it, where the point of the heart is lodged, in its course to the diaphragm; and as the other phrenic nerve of the right side has a straight course to the diaphragm; and as many other considerable branches of this fourth pair of cervical nerves are spread on the arms; does not a pain in the left arm distinguish a disease ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin



Words linked to "Phrenic nerve" :   spinal nerve, nervus spinalis



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