Definition of Accessory nerve

1. Noun. Arises from two sets of roots (cranial and spinal) that unite to form the nerve.


Definition of Accessory nerve

1. Noun. (context: medical physiology) The 11th cranial nerves of higher vertebrates, controlling the pharynx, and the muscles of the upper chest and shoulders. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Accessory nerve

1. The accessory nerve enervates the sternocleidomastoid muscles and the trapezius muscles. Lesions of the eleventh result in drooping of the shoulder and inability to rotate the head away from the affected side. Synonym: cranial nerve XI. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accessory Nerve

accessory equipment
accessory flexor muscle of foot
accessory flower part
accessory fruit
accessory fruits
accessory gland
accessory hemiazygos vein
accessory hemiazygous vein
accessory ligaments
accessory meningeal branch of middle meningeal artery
accessory mineral
accessory minerals
accessory molecules
accessory nasal cartilages
accessory nerve
accessory nerve lymph nodes
accessory nerve trunk
accessory nerves
accessory olivary nuclei
accessory organs
accessory organs of the eye
accessory pancreas
accessory pancreatic duct
accessory parotid gland
accessory phrenic nerves
accessory pigment
accessory placenta
accessory plantar ligaments

Literary usage of Accessory nerve

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The Nucleus of the Spinal accessory nerve.—This group of cells begins in the closed part of the medulla, close to the base of the posterior cornu, ..."

2. Handbook of physiology by William Senhouse Kirkes (1873)
"Physiology of the Spinal accessory nerve. In the preceding pages it is implied that ... The principal branch of the accessory nerve, its external branch, ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(m) Paralysis of the Spinal accessory nerve Growths located in the region of the foramen magnum arc often responsible for paralysis of the spinal accessory ..."

4. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"... one or two filaments pass between it and the spinal accessory nerve ; and there is sometimes a filament connecting it with the petrous ganglion of the ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The accessory nerve consists of two parts: a cerebral and a spinal. The cerebral part (minus intermix; accessory portion) is the smaller of the two. ..."

6. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1889)
"In the chest, between the pericardium and the pleura, the right accessory nerve was 1 inch to 1£ inch in front of normal nerve, while the left accessory was ..."

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