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Definition of Phrenic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the diaphragm. "Phrenic nerve"
Definition of Phrenic
1. a. Of or pertaining to the diaphragm; diaphragmatic; as, the phrenic nerve.
Definition of Phrenic
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the diaphragm ¹
2. Adjective. (physiology) Relating to the mind or mental activity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phrenic
1. pertaining to the mind [adj]
Medical Definition of Phrenic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Phrenic
Literary usage of Phrenic
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 (1901)
"From the epigastric or solar plexus are derived the following : phrenic or ...
The phrenic plexus accompanies the phrenic artery to the Diaphragm, ..."
2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1893)
"A phrenic NERVE RECEIVING A HOOT OF ORIGIN FROM THE DESCENDENS HYPOGLOSSI.
By Professor Sir W. TURNER. VARIATIONS in the roots of origin of the phrenic ..."
3. Morris's Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise by English and by Henry Morris, James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"The phrenic Nerve (fig. 676) springs chiefly from the fourth cervical nerve, ...
After the union of its roots the phrenic nerve passes downwards and inwards ..."
4. Diseases of the Nervous System: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Hermann Oppenheim, Edward E. Mayer (1904)
"Xi-u-ritic paralysis of the phrenic may be of rheumatic (? ... A bilateral phrenic
paralysis may occur in the course of an alcoholic neuritis, ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1882)
"THE phrenic NERVE.—Henocque and Eloy have made experiments upon the phrenic nerve,
to determine the action of each one of the roots that go to form the ..."
6. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"The chief branch of the cervical plexus is the phrenic nerve, which is supplied to
... Diseases of the phrenic Nerve. This nerve, also called the internal ..."
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