"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 |