cervical plexus

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   a nerve plexus lying beneath the sternocleidomastoid muscle

   Synonymsplexus cervicalis

   Broadernerve plexus

Questions about cervical plexus

What does cervical plexus mean?

cervical plexus means "a nerve plexus lying beneath the sternocleidomastoid muscle".

What is another word for cervical plexus?

Close synonyms include plexus cervicalis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cervical plexus a common word?

cervical plexus 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.