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Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Peripheral Nerves > Spinal Nerves > Thoracic Nerves

Preferred term

Thoracic Nerves  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Nerve, Pectoral
  • Nerves, Pectoral
  • Pectoral Nerve
  • Pectoral Nerves

Note

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

Scope note

  • The twelve spinal nerves on each side of the thorax. They include eleven INTERCOSTAL NERVES and one subcostal nerve. Both sensory and motor, they supply the muscles and skin of the thoracic and abdominal walls.

History note

  • PECTORAL NERVES was see under THORACIC NERVES 1963-78

In other languages

  • rintahermot

    Finnish

  • n. thoracicus
  • rintahermo
  • rintakehän hermo
  • rintakehän hermot
  • thoraxin hermo
  • thoraxin hermot
  • Bröstkorgsnerver

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013900

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