Definition of Cervical nerve

1. Noun. Any of eight pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the cervical section of the spinal cord.

Generic synonyms: Nervus Spinalis, Spinal Nerve

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cervical Nerve

cervical hyperesthesia
cervical iliocostal muscle
cervical interspinal muscle
cervical interspinales muscles
cervical laminectomy
cervical line
cervical longissimus muscle
cervical loop
cervical lymphadenitis
cervical margin
cervical margin of tooth
cervical myositis
cervical myospasm
cervical nerve (current term)
cervical nerves
cervical nystagmus
cervical oesophageal web
cervical oesophagus
cervical osteoarthritis
cervical part of internal carotid artery
cervical part of oesophagus
cervical part of spinal cord
cervical part of thoracic duct
cervical pleura
cervical plexus
cervical pregnancy
cervical radiculopathy

Literary usage of Cervical nerve

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

1. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"In front of the intertransverse muscles, the nerve divides into an ascending part, which joins the first cervical nerve, and a descending part to the third. ..."

2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1899)
"REGENERATION OF THE DORSAL ROOT FIBRES OF TH"E SECOND cervical nerve WITHIN ... Moreover, the second cervical nerve in the dog is connected with the system ..."

3. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The first cervical nerve is directed a little upward and outward ; the second is horizontal ; the others are directed obliquely downward and outward, ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"The trunk of the first cervical nerve (suboccipital) leaves the spinal canal between the occipital bone and the posterior arch of the atlas; the second, ..."

5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"Laceration of the fifth cervical nerve root and partial avulsion of the ganglion and tension on the sixth cervical nerve root produced by forcible downward ..."

6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The Cutaneous Cervical («. cutaneus colli; superficial or transverse cervical nerve) arises from the second and third cervical nerves, turns around the ..."

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