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Definition of Nervus phrenicus

1. Noun. One of a pair of nerves that arises from cervical spinal roots and passes down the thorax to innervate the diaphragm and control breathing.

Medical Definition of Nervus phrenicus

1. The motor nerve of the diaphragm. The phrenic nerve fibres originate in the cervical spinal column (mostly c4) and travel through the cervical plexus to the diaphragm. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nervus Phrenicus

Literary usage of Nervus phrenicus

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

1. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1870)
"The extensive investigations of Luschka (Der nervus phrenicus des Menschen, 1853, p. 14) enabled the author to explain the unusual course of the whole nerve ..."

2. Medicinisch-chirurgische Rundschau (1867)
"... der Tumor eingeschlossen ist. sieht man in der gegen das vordere Mediastinum gewendeten Partie den rechten nervus phrenicus fest eingewachsen verlaufen. ..."

3. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"145, 146), but the phrenic nerve requires careful consideration. nervus phrenicus.—The importance of the phrenic nerve depends upon the ..."

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