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... > Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Peripheral Nerves > Spinal Nerves > Cervical Plexus > Phrenic Nerve

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Phrenic Nerve  

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Note

  • dis: coord IM with PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES (IM); neopl: coord IM with PERIPHERAL NERVE NEOPLASMS (IM) + histol type of neopl (IM)

Scope note

  • The motor nerve of the diaphragm. The phrenic nerve fibers originate in the cervical spinal column (mostly C4) and travel through the cervical plexus to the diaphragm.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010791

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