cervical nerve

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   any of eight pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the cervical section of the spinal cord

   Broaderspinal nerve

Questions about cervical nerve

What does cervical nerve mean?

cervical nerve means "any of eight pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the cervical section of the spinal cord".

Is cervical nerve a common word?

cervical nerve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.