nervus phrenicus

1. 1.

   one of a pair of nerves that arises from cervical spinal roots and passes down the thorax to innervate the diaphragm and control breathing

   Synonymsphrenic nerve

   Broaderspinal nerve

Questions about nervus phrenicus

What does nervus phrenicus mean?

nervus phrenicus means "one of a pair of nerves that arises from cervical spinal roots and passes down the thorax to innervate the diaphragm and control breathing".

What is another word for nervus phrenicus?

Close synonyms include phrenic nerve. 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 nervus phrenicus a common word?

nervus phrenicus 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.