phrenic nerve

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

   Synonymsnervus phrenicus

   Broaderspinal nerve

Questions about phrenic nerve

What does phrenic nerve mean?

phrenic nerve 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 phrenic nerve?

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

phrenic 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.