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Definition of Phrenic nerve
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 Phrenic nerve
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Phrenic Nerve
Literary usage of Phrenic 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 (1901)
"It receives one or two branches from the phrenic nerve. In connection with this
plexus, on the right side, at its point of junction with the phrenic nerve, ..."
2. 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 ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (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 ..."
4. 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 ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Beck performed the post-mortem and found the following: The bullet had contused
the left phrenic nerve so that there was an extravasation of blood in the ..."
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