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Definition of Cervical plexus
1. Noun. A nerve plexus lying beneath the sternocleidomastoid muscle.
Medical Definition of Cervical plexus
1. A network of nerve fibres originating in the upper four cervical spinal cord segments. The cervical plexus distributes cutaneous nerves to parts of the neck, shoulders, and back of the head, and motor fibres to muscles of the cervical spinal column, infrahyoid muscles, and the diaphragm. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cervical Plexus
Literary usage of Cervical plexus
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 cervical plexus (Fig. 496) is formed, as above described, by the anterior
... Superficial Branches of the cervical plexus. The Occipitalis minor (Fig. ..."
2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The anterior divisions of the first and second nerves require a notice separately
from the description of the nerves of the cervical plexus. ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"Superficial Brandies of the cervical plexus 679 Deep Brandies of the Cervical
Plexus . H81 Posterior Branches of the Cervical Nerves 682 BRACHIAL PLEXUS. ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The anterior divisions of the upper four cervical nerves unite to form the cervical
plexus, and each receives a gray ramus communicans from the superior ..."
5. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1903)
"Diagram of the cervical plexus and the Ansa Hypoglossi. I, II, III, IV. ...
The cervical plexus thus formed has very definite relations. ..."
6. 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)
"Rev. neural., Paris, 1914, xxviii, 475-478. i. Lesions of the Domain of the
cervical plexus ... cervical plexus."
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