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Definition of Accessory nerve
1. Noun. Arises from two sets of roots (cranial and spinal) that unite to form the nerve.
Generic synonyms: Cranial 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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Accessory Nerve
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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